You Can’t Eat Pepperoni Pizza?
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
SHORT, SERIOUS ANSWER: “No, because it’s pork, and because we don’t eat meat with milk, so we don’t eat meat with cheese.”
MORE EFFECTIVE RETORT: “No milk with meat is TRADITION!” Crucial here, according to Nemko, is to say it like Tevye from Fiddler.
CONCISE COMEBACK: “The Lord wouldn’t strike me dead… but why take the chance?”
4. What can you eat?
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