Everyone loves their Hanukkah Ham

Or not so much. . .

This was REALLY not kosher.

A grocery store in Manhattan made a food faux pas, advertising hams as “Delicious for Chanukah.”

Chanukah ? an alternate spelling for Hanukkah ? is the eight-day Jewish holiday that began Tuesday evening, and hams ? as well as pork and other products from pigs ? can’t be eaten under Jewish dietary laws.

A woman who saw the mistake over the weekend at the Balducci’s store on 14th Street took pictures of the signs and posted them on her blog.

Jennifer Barton, director of marketing, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the signs were changed as soon as the error was noted.

She issued an apology on the company Web site, saying the company would be reviewing its employee training.

Maybe a simple IQ test is in order.

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Comments:

  1. at BALDUCCI’s? You’ve got to be kidding.

    Comment by Donna Lethal — December 10, 2007 @ 1:31 pm
  2. Yea, this sounds more like a Fairway fuck up.

    Actually, I was talking about this on another, more Noo Yawk group, and it turns out, someone’s been working on a kosher ham…

    Comment by actor212 — December 11, 2007 @ 3:31 pm