Wince.

[pat]

pdx42 recounted that someone recently had brought cookies to his office in the shape of the Star of David, with... yellow icing.

This puts me in mind of the time I took a pan of beef cannelloni to a party at the home of my husband's PhD. advisor... my husband's Hindu PhD. advisor. He was gracious about it, however -- and other people ate it. I just felt silly. (I didn't eat it -- my host makes some of the best Indian food I have ever tasted, and I ate that.)

Okay, so it's not as egregious as the yellow Star of David; it's still pretty clueless.

Comments

[runeshower.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Did anyone at the office comment on the yellow stars?

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Apparently people noticed but were too nice to say anything, from what I can tell of his post.

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Whoops. And yeah, beef canelloni, not good plan either. Well, we can't be expected to know everything about every culture. Just to hope that when we make gaffes like this, people are as nice as your hubby's advisor. :^)

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

The thing was... I did know. I had just forgotten, at least until I got to their house and was setting it down in the kitchen.

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Oh dear! How embarrassing! Well, at least he was gracious. Our Jewish neighbors have been quite nice about the jam that I gave them shortly after we met. They are more observant than most I'd encountered before, but still flexible. The jam, since prepared in non-kosher kitchen-ware, could not be eaten in their kitchen, even though it would not be heated again. It could, however, be eaten elsewhere... like on the patio. :^D