Comments on: Kitchen Yiddish II http://www.israelikitchen.com/just-for-fun/kitchen-yiddish-ii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kitchen-yiddish-ii Food, Wine and Travel in the Heart of Israel Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:46:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mimi54 http://www.israelikitchen.com/just-for-fun/kitchen-yiddish-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-1478 Mimi54 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:56:40 +0000 http://www.israelikitchen.com/?p=1886#comment-1478 I love it! Thank you, Sarah! A little gem to tuck away in my mind. My late Dad so wanted us to learn Yiddish - he was a scholar of Yiddish himself. I refused, and now I'm sorry. How rich a language, absorbing local idioms so freely and then giving back to the mainstream culture. I love it! Thank you, Sarah! A little gem to tuck away in my mind. My late Dad so wanted us to learn Yiddish – he was a scholar of Yiddish himself. I refused, and now I’m sorry. How rich a language, absorbing local idioms so freely and then giving back to the mainstream culture.

]]> By: Sarah http://www.israelikitchen.com/just-for-fun/kitchen-yiddish-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-1477 Sarah Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:59:09 +0000 http://www.israelikitchen.com/?p=1886#comment-1477 Hocking that chynick is actually an English expression... :) The original saying is "to hawk a teapot". To quote the dictionary (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hawk) To hawk = to peddle goods aggressively... which, of course, Jews used to do a lot in old New York. And because teapots were cheap and plentiful, and few people ever needed a new one, the last thing they wanted was someone trying to pressure them into buying one. So there, now you know... :-D Hocking that chynick is actually an English expression… :) The original saying is “to hawk a teapot”. To quote the dictionary (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hawk)
To hawk = to peddle goods aggressively…
which, of course, Jews used to do a lot in old New York. And because teapots were cheap and plentiful, and few people ever needed a new one, the last thing they wanted was someone trying to pressure them into buying one. So there, now you know… :-D

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