Back in the old country you took some herring and some some oil and some salt and poof- shmaltz herring. if you were really shnazzy, you used wine, vinegar and spices for some herring in wine “sauce”. I cannot verify the veracity of volume of such herring back in the old country. In fact, it doesn’t exist today in Poland, and I wonder if it ever did! People eat Rollmops, herring in oil (shmaltz), spiced-homestyle, and thats about it.

Meanwhile a passover herring crisis has arisen. This ONLY applies to herring in wine sauce, which as I have proven, obviously did not exist in the old country. It tastes good and is clean, but it does not reach the inner neshama, it fails to ignite that inner yid.

Passover herring crisis! Check your bottles!

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