Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: MT VOID, 04/12/24 -- Vol. 42, No. 41, Whole Number 2323 Date: 14 Apr 2024 16:28:37 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="3977"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1676 In article , Gary McGath wrote: >On 4/14/24 9:48 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote: >> >> The free holiday entree (Easter ham or turkey, kosher chicken, >> etc.) now requires $400 of purchases in the four weeks preceding >> Easter, which is normally the four weeks preceding Passover.  Not >> this year.  So if you want the kosher chicken, you have to spend >> $400 even before they have put out the Passover food (which >> definitely boosted your spending).  The one bright point is they >> will let people redeem their points for the kosher chicken until >> Passover, even though the usual deadline is Easter. >> >> (This part is not the supermarket's fault; blame Pope Gregory >> XIII.) > >The Greek Orthodox church has an extra rule that Easter must come after >Passover. What if I want both options so I can cook the kosher chicken with the easter ham inside? --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."