Wild-ass guess based on observing my Jewish friends' and relatives' dietary habits: I would say that Willow does not keep strictly kosher.
Keeping strictly kosher is really a pain in the ass, and something I associate with the stay-at-home mom who cooks every meal from scratch. Sheila's the kind of busy, distant mom whose family would subsist mostly on microwave dinners and/or takeout. (Yeah, theoretically Ira could do the cooking, but the vast majority of meal-prep seems to fall on the woman of the household).
I think there could be lingering hangups over some issues--my husband was raised Jewish, never came close to keeping strictly Kosher except when he lived in Israel as an infant (my MIL is a Sheila-type), but was a bit reticent about ordering pork. It wasn't that he was scared or grossed out by it, it just wasn't on his radar as something to order. But Asian BBQ in Seattle and Vancouver pretty much made that reticence disappear.
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Date: 2015-10-04 08:33 pm (UTC)Keeping strictly kosher is really a pain in the ass, and something I associate with the stay-at-home mom who cooks every meal from scratch. Sheila's the kind of busy, distant mom whose family would subsist mostly on microwave dinners and/or takeout. (Yeah, theoretically Ira could do the cooking, but the vast majority of meal-prep seems to fall on the woman of the household).
I think there could be lingering hangups over some issues--my husband was raised Jewish, never came close to keeping strictly Kosher except when he lived in Israel as an infant (my MIL is a Sheila-type), but was a bit reticent about ordering pork. It wasn't that he was scared or grossed out by it, it just wasn't on his radar as something to order. But Asian BBQ in Seattle and Vancouver pretty much made that reticence disappear.