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<blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 703698" data-attributes="member: 46690">Old Jackie Mason classic:A young boy is growing up in a Hasidic community in Brooklyn. Not&nbsp; only has he never left Brooklyn before, but he's hardly ever even&nbsp; ventured outside his neighborhood.But one day,&nbsp; shortly after his 18th birthday, his father comes to him and says &quot;Son,&nbsp; I need you to take a package to my business partner in Manhattan&quot; and&nbsp; he hands the boy a manila envelope with a midtown address on it. So for the very first time in his life the kid hops on a subway and leaves the borough of Brooklyn.A&nbsp; half hour later he hops off the subway at Times Square.Coming out of the station into daylight the kid is immediately overwhelmed by the sights, the sounds, and all the people! This was nothing like Bay Ridge. He found the office and delivered the package.Back&nbsp; out on the street he decided to do a little sightseeing as long as he&nbsp; was there. So he wandered around, just walking and taking in the sights.After&nbsp; a while though he started to get hungry. And just as he realized he was&nbsp; hungry he passed by a restaurant that had a sign in the window which&nbsp; said, &quot;Special Today: Roast Suckling Pig&quot;.&quot;You&nbsp; know&quot; he said to himself, &quot;I have never once in my life tasted pork.&nbsp; I've been a good Jew, very observant. I don't think God would strike me&nbsp; dead if I just had one tiny taste of pork, just this once.&quot;So he went into the restaurant and ordered the whole suckling pig.Ten&nbsp; minutes later the waiter arrived with the pig laid out on a silver&nbsp; platter, surrounded by a ring of parsley, and with an apple stuffed in&nbsp; its mouth. He set it down in front of the young man.The kid's eyes boggled. It was gorgeous! And the smell! He grabbed his knife and fork and prepared to dig in.But just as he was about to cut his first slice the front door of the restaurant opened and who should walk in, but his rabbi!The rabbi immediately spots the boy sitting there, with an entire roast pig in front of him and a knife and fork in his hands.&quot;Oy! My boy, what are you doing?!&quot; he yells.The&nbsp; kid looks at the rabbi in horror, then down at the pig, then back up at&nbsp; the rabbi. Finally he says, &quot;I ordered a baked apple - who knew what it&nbsp; would come with?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dangerspouse, post: 703698, member: 46690"] [B]Old Jackie Mason classic[/B]: A young boy is growing up in a Hasidic community in Brooklyn. Not only has he never left Brooklyn before, but he's hardly ever even ventured outside his neighborhood. But one day, shortly after his 18th birthday, his father comes to him and says "[I]Son, I need you to take a package to my business partner in Manhattan[/I]" and he hands the boy a manila envelope with a midtown address on it. So for the very first time in his life the kid hops on a subway and leaves the borough of Brooklyn. A half hour later he hops off the subway at Times Square. Coming out of the station into daylight the kid is immediately overwhelmed by the sights, the sounds, and [I]all the people! [/I]This was nothing like Bay Ridge. He found the office and delivered the package. Back out on the street he decided to do a little sightseeing as long as he was there. So he wandered around, just walking and taking in the sights. After a while though he started to get hungry. And just as he realized he was hungry he passed by a restaurant that had a sign in the window which said, "Special Today: Roast Suckling Pig". "[I]You know[/I]" he said to himself, "[I]I have never once in my life tasted pork. I've been a good Jew, very observant. I don't think God would strike me dead if I just had one tiny taste of pork, just this once[/I]." So he went into the restaurant and ordered the whole suckling pig. Ten minutes later the waiter arrived with the pig laid out on a silver platter, surrounded by a ring of parsley, and with an apple stuffed in its mouth. He set it down in front of the young man. The kid's eyes boggled. It was gorgeous! And the smell! He grabbed his knife and fork and prepared to dig in. But just as he was about to cut his first slice the front door of the restaurant opened and who should walk in, but his rabbi! The rabbi immediately spots the boy sitting there, with an entire roast pig in front of him and a knife and fork in his hands. "Oy! My boy, what are you doing?!" he yells. The kid looks at the rabbi in horror, then down at the pig, then back up at the rabbi. Finally he says, "[I]I ordered a baked apple - who knew what it would come with?[/I]" [/QUOTE]

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