Comments on: Zionist sugar

By: Adolfo Lopo

Adolfo Lopo — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:52:57 +0000

… but I´m just a sugar packets collector.
Is there any possibilility to get that serie or any others from Israel? I’ve got none of that/your country, in my collection.
I hope you can help me.
Is there any other collector?
Best regards
Adolfo

By: Larry Badash

Larry Badash — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:58:29 +0000

As my sister indicated – Mama Katz – we are ancestors of Eliyahu David Badash. I am interested in knowing the sugar company phone number so I can contact them. I am trying to track down a sugar packet and also where his photograph and bio came from. Any assistance would be most wonderful.

By: Mama Katz

Mama Katz — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:45:32 +0000

Eliyahu David Badash is an ancestor of mine. I would LOVE a sugar packet with his picture and biography.

By: Jameel @ The Muqata

Jameel @ The Muqata — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:57:34 +0000

Lisa -

You totally stole that posting from me! Well…almost. I took the exact same packs of sugar to blog about a few weeks ago, but never got around to blogging it.

Kudos

By: Aviv

Aviv — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:49:57 +0000

This is by no means a haphazard post. Every now and then we need to take a step back and think – WWHD? What would Herzl do?

Herzl started a pluralistic movement, with room for everyone as long as they thought Jews deserved some sort of self-government, eventually in Palestine. How, where and when it would be established, and what kind of self-government it would be like, was, and is, up for discussion. Back then, the issue was whether Uganda was on the table for an interim Jewish state; Today, among other issues, social justice. Who gets computer science classes in high school and who gets 40-student classrooms with no air conditioning? Who gets crembo and who gets subsidized bread?

Zionism had room for capitalist hardliners like Jabotinsky, who had goons who would crash workers’ riots and demonstrations. (Old Ze’ev would have been an avid TheMarker reader). And it had room for soup kitchen builders like Szold.

Americans refer to the constitution and the Founding Fathers when they discuss what the United States is all about. They eat turkey to commemorate what they value and are grateful for. I guess we’re left with crembo, subsidized bread and the founders of Zionism etched on sugar packets.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:49:05 +0000

How can we get those sugar packets, in English, in the US???

Re the Crembos, in the US we have Malomars. Everyone knows you peel off the chocolate and eat it, then dissect the marshmallow from the wafer, which you eat last. If you are in a hurry, you just pop the whole thing in your mouth.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:24:39 +0000

I must confess to also being completely indifferent to Crembos – I’d be surprised if I’ve eaten one whole one in my nearly 3 years here. This is because the equivalent in South Africa – called a sweetie pie if I recall right- is just sooo much better. Yum! you taste one of those and you will leave those nasty artificial cremboes alone for ever.
Yeah we had hard sour balls when I was a kid which were called ni**er balls – what can I say us South Africans are slowly catching onto political correctness.

good post – your list of issues is a long and sad one.

By: Leo

Leo — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:29:25 +0000

This Sugar is awesome. When I was in Israel the last time I got Begin who was missing in my collection. I called it Zionist Sugar as well.

By: Samer

Samer — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:03:13 +0000

So Crembo, that’s what they’re called. As you mentioned, in Lebanon we grew up calling them a very offensive racial name, but in recent years they changed their name to “Tarboush” (the Arabic word for Fez); my childhood is laced with Crembo dreams, hehehe — I noticed we soon grow out of them somehow though, at least in Beirut.
…And yes, milk prices are rising and will continue to rise, something to do with cows in New Zealand, and don’t ask how I know this

By: Curt

Curt — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:34:07 +0000

Yep. And the best ones are available at the Arab-run market on San Pablo Avenue and Bancroft in Berkeley. But they’re made by Laotian immigrants on Moon Base Alpha.