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Is Schlitz the beer company that Laverne and Shirley work for before moving to LA?
by TMWNN 5mo ago
Is Schlitz the beer company that Laverne and Shirley work for before moving to LA?
- EA-3167 5mo agoThat was Hasenpfeffer Incorporated, as per the intro song.
- bryanrasmussen 5mo agonope, sorry had to correct that - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254643
- EA-3167 5mo agoI thought it was an obvious joke given the reference to the song! “Shlemeil, schlimazel, Hasenpfeffer incorporated”
- bryanrasmussen 5mo agoah ok, I thought you were being serious.
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- bryanrasmussen 5mo agoThey worked at the Shotz brewery, an obvious Schlitz standin. Hasenpfeffer is a yiddish dish, here is a video familiar to some older generations of someone who wants to eat some Hasenpfeffer https://youtube.com/watch?v=OdXm-cb2cjQ https://youtube.com/watch?v=OdXm-cb2cjQ Why is it Hasenpfeffer Incorporated in the jump rope rhyme they are singing as they skip down the street? Probably because at least one of the characters is supposed to be Jewish, can't remember which one, they also sing Schlemiel, Schlamazel - unsure of spelling, which are both Yiddish words, although only Schlemiel is somewhat familiar to the public.
- mistrial9 5mo agono, Hasenpfeffer is not exclusively a yiddish dish AFAIK
- buescher 5mo agoI guess it could be if you left out the bacon… and the rabbit.
- FarmerPotato 5mo agoI’m not certain, though I have been to the Laverne and Shirley temple in Sprecher Brewery, but: Hassenpfeffer sounds like a play on Harnischfegger, a maker of heavy construction equipment in Milwaukee. Trivia: One of Henry Harnischfeger’s customers was Pabst Brewing Co. Harnischfeger ran itself into the ground in the 90s. I worked in their headquarters for more than a decade. That building is prime real estate and became an FBI office.
- ahartmetz 5mo agoHasenpfeffer is also a French and German dish - it might be considered Jewish in the US because it's especially popular in Jewish culture there? It's unlike gefilte fish which is AFAIK considered Jewish everywhere.
- fortran77 5mo agoJews don't eat hare. Hasenpfeffer is not a "Yiddish" word.
- fortran77 5mo agoAs a native Yiddish speaker (it was my first language!) I can assure you that "Hasenpfeffer" is not a Yiddish dish, it is rabbit and most definitely _treif_. Yiddish speakers would not eat it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasenpfeffer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasenpfeffer Shleimiel and Shlmazal are yiddish, via Hebrew. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9C#Yiddish https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%9... and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%96%D7%9C#Yiddish https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%9...