I don’t keep kosher for Passover, but tonight as I was shopping for my usual bagels, pasta, and popcorn, I suddenly had a hankering for matzoh. Unfortunately, this being the first night of Passover and an hour or so after most seders have concluded, every Jew in the tri-state area with an ounce of sense had already purchased their Pesach supply and my supermarket was sold out.
In the Passover aisle, that is. A few aisles over in Ethnic, they had the regular matzoh, the stuff that’s available year-round, that’s marked on the side NOT FOR PASSOVER USE.
And I stood there for something like ten minutes, looking back and forth from my bagels to my ersatz matzoh, thinking that there was Just Something Wrong with buying it. Knowing for a fact that I was being very silly. I’m still not entirely sure why I’m silly, but I’m definitely sure about it.
Non-Kosher for Passover Matzah? That’s like caffeine-free Jolt.
Note to non-Jews & people buying this stuff: Matzah has the exact same ingredients as Paper Mache (flour, water). We *HAVE* to eat it – what’s your excuse?
I like matzoh, in eight-day doses annually. Sort of like the single piece of gefilte fish I eat each year. Agreed that the idea of matzoh you can’t have on Passover hurts my head.
That being said, the stuff I bought has the following ingredients: unbleached wheat flour, water, onions, canola oil, eggs, malt, salt. It actually tastes better than paste.
Plus, it’s crunchy.
I figured the “not for passover” version had corn syrup. And bacon.
I’m thinking what you’ve got there is stale rye bread & some clever packaging…