Snow siege
On Thursday, with the forecast for snow on Saturday, bread flew off the shelves. Since shops are closed on Saturday, people, whether religious or not, always buy enough to last till Sunday. So why the run on bread?
Something in Jerusalemites remembers the siege of Jerusalem. That's all I can figure out. I've never seen shops run out of food on snowy days. The bakeries bake extra and the city, even back before it had snowplows and was set up to salt the streets, sees to it that bread is distributed.
So what folks remember cannot be past snowstorms.
The old remember the siege. The middle aged remember moms buying extra bread when snow or was threatened. And so the custom is passed on.
Even I felt the urge to buy extra bread. Instead I bought eight potatoes. We cook with gas. I can see the canisters from the window. We could probably go on cooking even after an earthquake.
By Friday they were predicting snow both Saturday and Sunday. I looked. There was still plenty of canned tuna on stores shelves, and canned corn -- the two staples bought up before more recent wars. But bread, ah bread, you must have that on hand.
No snow fell in Jerusalem. Much disappointment was expressed. The meteorologist said snow has been known to fall in March in Jerusalem and even in April. Perhaps folks have bread waiting in their freezers now.
Copyright 2012 Jane S. Fox
Something in Jerusalemites remembers the siege of Jerusalem. That's all I can figure out. I've never seen shops run out of food on snowy days. The bakeries bake extra and the city, even back before it had snowplows and was set up to salt the streets, sees to it that bread is distributed.
So what folks remember cannot be past snowstorms.
The old remember the siege. The middle aged remember moms buying extra bread when snow or was threatened. And so the custom is passed on.
Even I felt the urge to buy extra bread. Instead I bought eight potatoes. We cook with gas. I can see the canisters from the window. We could probably go on cooking even after an earthquake.
By Friday they were predicting snow both Saturday and Sunday. I looked. There was still plenty of canned tuna on stores shelves, and canned corn -- the two staples bought up before more recent wars. But bread, ah bread, you must have that on hand.
No snow fell in Jerusalem. Much disappointment was expressed. The meteorologist said snow has been known to fall in March in Jerusalem and even in April. Perhaps folks have bread waiting in their freezers now.
Copyright 2012 Jane S. Fox
posted by Jane S.Fox at 12:24 PM
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