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tannybogus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:20 PM
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Last Supper Menu Clarified
Jesus was eating EEL in the Last Supper painting, not bread or lamb, according to art historian.
The menu portrayed in Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper painting has finally been revealed. The painter actually showed Jesus and his disciples eating eel with orange slices, not bread or lamb as previously thought.

That is the opinion of art historian John Varriano, who says the eel was revealed in a 1997 restoration of the world famous painting. Varriano tells Gastronomica magazine that pairing eels and oranges was very fashionable in the 1400s.


http://j-walkblog.com/

That would have been the end for me too. Blechh!
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:22 PM
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1. Well, I'm going to have to re-order all my food for the Passover Seder now? n/t
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:23 PM
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2. That will not go over very well at the Sunday Communion
So much for crackers and grape juice
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MISSDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:24 PM
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3. I've often read that Jesus and his fellow travelers in time
ate seafood, especially sea vegetables, ie, sea weed, instead of meat.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:25 PM
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4. Eel is good - you just need the right sauce
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:25 PM
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5. I like eel! Yummy.
And I'm not surprised that an Italian ca. 1500 would include eel in a supper painting.

And I wonder if, assuming that it really is eel in the painting, DaVinci was playing a little anti-semitism by having Jesus presiding over a passover meal of eel.
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:25 PM
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6. Eel? For his last meal? It's not kosher!
Edited on Wed Oct-01-08 03:26 PM by Tangerine LaBamba
No wonder he got ....................

Never mind.
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JackintheGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:53 PM
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14. Eel isn't kosher?
Why not?
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 04:06 PM
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15. no scales
IIRC, it has to have scales to be kosher
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JackintheGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 04:19 PM
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18. I never thought about it
Thanks!
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 04:17 PM
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17. The scales on eel
are actually part of its skin, not separate, like scales are on fish.

So, it's not kosher.

Here's a site that has a lot of information:

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/623273/jewish/Is-eel-kosher.htm
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GCP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:29 PM
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7. How would Leonardo Da Vinci know what the hell they were eating?
:shrug:
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tannybogus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:32 PM
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12. Gawd told him!
Just like he told all those people what to write and put in the Bible. It is the inerrant word of fools.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:30 PM
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8. That crazy Jesus and his Eel leaks
/off to hell
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:30 PM
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9. What the heck kind of Passover meal is that? Eel isn't even kosher.
:eyes:
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:30 PM
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10. Jesus! I said VEAL!!!
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dbonds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:31 PM
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11. Heavenly sushi
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 03:33 PM
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13. Eel is actually very delicious.
Seriously.
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 04:07 PM
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16. that's BS
he was eating dinosaur! :rant:
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