Why Bad, Sweet Wine Is A Passover Tradition

The Atlantic:

"A seder without sweet Manischewitz," the comedian Jackie Mason once said, "would be like horseradish without tears, like a cantor without a voice, like a shul without a complaint, like a yenta without a big mouth, like Passover without Jews." To the uninitiated, Passover wine is an ethnic curiosity, or a culinary ordeal on a par with lutefisk. Those who grew up drinking it, though, find in Concord grape wine the taste of Jewish tradition. And that's ironic, because there may be no more thoroughly American beverage.

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Comments

[gregory57]

11:25 PM on 04/17/2011

Is sweet wine "bad" because that's what the wine Nazis tell us?

I happen to like it.

[pgurlatl]

05:24 AM on 04/17/2011

I make sangria with this wine. I've been made fun of too but no one says no to a glass of it.