homentashen--(message #2)

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:37 PM -0500 8/11/02, Gerald Cohen wrote:
>     Here's an excerpt from Nathan Süsskind's item explaining why the
>villain Haman's name appears in the Purim pastry homentashen:
>
>...
>     [G. Cohen] So "homentashen" commemorates the humiliation of a
>villainous enemy. But it is incredible that any delicious food could
>be named for a story involving the contents of a chamber pot.
>
Well, if you're using the lekvar (prune butter) filling and don't
look (or smell) closely...

L