I do seem to lose weight a bit more easily than my non-vegetarian sister, and I've definitely lost a bit of weight the times that I've got vegan for a little while, but I never got anywhere close to looking like those women. I've known vegetarians and vegans with a whole range of body types. (As a vegetarian, it's really easy to fall into the cheesetarian trap, and end up with a pretty high-fat diet. When I actually take the time to cook my own food, rather than ordering in or heating up frozen cheezy things, I lose weight much more quickly.)

Are they both straight-sided, Perkins?

The tart pan is scalloped. It sounds like that's the better choice though, so I will use that.

(sorry, I got called away)

Disney eggs: [link] I really can't get beyond "eww."

Perkins, I would use a deep ceramic dish, if you have one of those.

Not that's anything close to the right shape, unfortunately. I think I'm going to try the tart pan, and just keep a close eye on it cooking time wise.

Does anyone else shudder at the inevitability of a Jewish knock-off product? Magen David stamped eggs? Menorah stamped eggs? Rebbe stamped eggs?

Am I missing something cultural here? Whence the inevitability?

Snerk. An Israeli paper published a list of the 33 most embarrassing moments at the Knesset. [link] Things like

August 1999: Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg states in the Knesset plenum that veteran MK Amnon Rubinstein has died. The MKs rise and honor him with a minute of silence; Burg delivers a moving eulogy which is broadcast on television. One of those moved is Rubinstein himself, watching the event from his sickbed in Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem. It later turns out that Zalman Shoshi, a transgender celebrity, posed as a doctor and announced Rubinstein?s death. Burg had not checked the facts.

and

March 2003: After being suspected of voting twice on the state budget - once in his name and once in the name of MK Inbal Gavrieli (Likud) - MK Yehiel Hazan (Likud) takes the electronic voting panel out of the Knesset storeroom, stuffs it into a plastic bag and hightails it out of the building.

The first comment on the article is:

In the year 033

1.Mistrial of a just man.

2.This man deserves and should ungergo a fair retrial.

3.Charge: is He really the Son of God?

4.Only a fair retrial can bring permanent peace to the Middle East.

5.Fair Retrial is the Divine Formula for Peace.

Two comments later, the response:

Since Israeli law does not permit trials in abstentia, the defendant will be required to make a personal appearance at his retrial.

Should he choose to make an appearance at some point in the future, his claims will be reconsidered in a whole new light.

I think this is the first time I've ever seen anything remotely interesting in Haaretz comments, which are generally filled with "All you leftists are killing the state! It'll be your fault when the Arabs take over!"

Am I missing something cultural here? Whence the inevitability?

I think the joke is that pretty much everything in American pop culture has a really cheap Jewish version, too. Things like versions of Candy Land where all the candy has kosher labels, the Power Beads fad begat Jewish Power Beads, and so on. At least, I think that's the joke. Every time there's some new product, someone somewhere tries to sell a version with a Jewish twist. (Generally, they don't do too well -- I think the only people who ever bought the Kosher Candy Land were Jewish nursery schools, and the Jewish Power Beads fad lasted about a week.)

Mona went to school today, and she did a really great job!

We practiced HEEL! And SIT! Although, while the other dogs sit next to their people facing forward, Mona sits backward. Every. Single. Time. We ran around the square, I got yelled at by the teacher for not paying attention, and Mona had her first ever ride in the convertible with the top down, which she LURVED.

I'm glad you guys did so well today, Allyson.

Guess which one is me!