I'm a fairly accomplished home cook who entertains frequently. One of our regular gigs is "Pizza night" where we'll invite some friends and I make homemade pizza and other assorted goodies. This past weekend we hosted some friends from High School (someone cue up Glory Days) and one my one friend invited one of HIS friends who I knew from HS but haven't seen since then to join us. Ugh. I'm normally a very welcoming and hospitable host who would look forward to 3 (his wife and kid) additional guests...the more the merrier...however, since the shit in Newtown I've kinda lost my appetite for people.

 

Anyway...I smiled and told him to bring them anyway.

 

Then he tells me they are kosher. Oy....

 

Knowing that not all people follow the same guidelines I asked him "How Kosher?" He tells me that they have separate sinks, plates, etc. Dude...that's pretty kosher. I can provide paper plates and stuff and make them meat free pizza's but this is going to be a challenge. Whatever....

 

So, they come, and things are going very well. Everyone is getting along swimmingly. The drinks are flowing and food is excellent. I cook everything and then when done join into the conversations that have been going on for the better part of an hour of so. The woman are talking about sports and kids activities and I hear my wife mention "range" and something else and then baseball comes up (my middle kid plays travel baseball) and then the conversation goes back to the cost of these youth sports. I mention to my friends wife..."forget baseball, have you a clue how expensive it is for what Andrew and I do?" Now, the wife of my kosher guest asks "where do you golf?" "Golf?" I ask...she replies...yes, when you and your son go the range..where? I chuckled as my wife says "no, they shoot together." My guest (judy) looks confused so I lean over and whisper "we shoot guns.' Her eyes get wide as saucers and she says "Oh no...I'm a liberal and hate guns." I tell her...plenty of liberals like guns so just because your a liberal doesn't mean you have to hate them, and then I ask if she's ever shot one. Yes, she says, when I was a kid....in Canda. Oy....

 

So now I've got a gun hating Canadian Liberal kosher woman in my house.

 

We actually had a very interesting discussion and no body got thrown out. But what I learned is these people eat all of the crap up that they hear on the radio and see on the TV and read on the internet of papers. The amount of misinformation is staggering and oh yes, plenty of the "I don't know why anyone needs" got thrown around. The lack of education on firearms and firearm culture is so shockingly evident, and frankly, we aren't helping ourselves with "Prepper" TV shows and Hollywood in general. Just this weekend ads for Stallone's new movie "Bullet to the Head" is on TV. What the eff?

 

Anyway, that was my Saturday night.

Next time tell them that as a prerequisite for coming over they must read http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp before dinner. Or one of the other factual websites out there on gun control.

The real important question is. When are you bringing some of this pizza to a USPSA match?

I'll bring some bread or bagels or donuts or something.

Where is the pizza pictures?