"Shochets love me; cows fear me"
-- Eddie Brener
Who we are:
In the early days of the attendance of University of Illinois - Urbana / Champaign, three Heebs, Eli Wald, Eddie Brener, and Ryan Kagin, started what is now known as Basar Tuesday. At first it was just some cooking of basar burgers and salami on their own kosher grills. But as the semester developed, so did Basar Tuesday. Marc Morgan, an original member of the Jew Crew along with Eli and Eddie, was more than eager to join the team, and quickly invested in several pounds of meat, becoming part of the team of four. They started preparing the grills shortly after all of them had Hebrew class in the Phe-Lamed-Bet (FLB) (starting at around 12:15), until classes reconvened for the three of them (until around 2:45). Guests from all around IT and even other dorms come to enjoy the taste and smell of Basar Tuesday. It has become more than an event; it has become a festival, a basar fest if you will. We cook up meat for any hardcore Heeb who obeys the laws of Kashrut, or those who are willing to try. Remember, Basar Tuesday is for the people; it's about the companionship, the sharing, and of course, the meat.
Quotes:
"Normally, to get this much meat you need a hunting license and a rifle"
"BASAR TUESDAY. DOES IT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS? FUCK NO."
"To prove that eating kosher meat is good for enhancing your athletic ability, just switch the letters of the two words around..... sokher (soccer) team! This is what BASAR TUESDAY is all about... trying to find excuses to devour massive amounts of meat with still feeling like it's a healthy choice!"
Eddie: "We're cooking turducken!"
"TODAY IS BASAR TUESDAY.... IF YOU ATE 10 POUNDS OF MEAT OR MORE IN THE LAST 10 HOURS... YOUR LOVER WILL LOVE YOU EVEN IF YOU SMELL LIKE GREASY KOSHER BURGERS! NOW SEND THIS TO 15 PEOPLE WHO WON'T FREAK OUT BY THIS INSTANT MESSAGE!!!!"
That's right folks, you guessed it. It's that time of the week again. Today is the festival of kosher gluttony, the christmas of cured meats, the holiday to end all other holidays that involve mass consumption of glatt kosher beef. Today is Basar Tuesday! Fuck Yeah! All MOT's are welcome.
"Ok so all you bogrei Schechter remember Tuesday Newsday right? Well here at UIUC we've invented something similar. We call it Basar Tuesday. It's almost the same, except it doesn't ryhme, and instead of involving current events, it involves the mass consumption of kosher meat. But other than that, it's exactly the same."
-- Eddie Brener's Basar Tuesday away message
-- Ryan Kagin's Basar Tuesday away message, taken from a Hardee's ad
-- Eli Wald's Basar Tuesday away message
-- Marc Morgan's Basar Tuesday away message
Ryan: "Well we better start it on Sunday night so we can finish it by Tuesday."
-- Marc Morgan's IM sent to Ryan Kagin
-- Eli Wald's Basar Tuesday away message