Questions

[magid]

1. Why would a radio station bleep sh** but not bleep cr**? Same length word meaning essentially the same thing.
   
   
2. For the Passover observers:
   Why is mustard considered kitniyot? (Yes, it can be powdered, but I cannot imagine anyone ever making crackers/bread wholly out of mustard powder!)
   Why is baking powder permissible? (Since it, like yeast, makes things rise.)
   And why is wild rice considered kitniyot, given that it is a grass like quinoa, which is permissible?
   
   
3. For those who have read Sheri Tepper's Gibbon's Decline and Fall:
   Which vial do you think Carolyn chose in the end? (Ruby = mated pairs with few children, topaz = parthenogenic, emerald = only chosen pregnancies, sapphire = extended youth without adolescence until later maturity, lapis = as it was.)

Comments

[magid.livejournal.com]

1. I don't understand why that should be. I guess I'll have to put it with all the other things I don't understand about modern society.

2.
a. Pods = kitniyot? I never knew that.
b. That one bugs me, always, in these days of hyper-vigilance in kashrut.