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E-PrinceThe Princeton Committee on Palestine has sponsored a referendum in next week’s USG elections that asks Dining Services to sell an alternative to Sabra hummus in all its retail locations on campus.
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Full disclosure before I begin- I'm a TFI officer. I just want to clarify something about the very confusing situation regarding the wording of this referendum. Given the current wording of the measure and PCP's statement to the author of this article, one might get the impression that PCP was never trying to argue that the University should ban the sale of Sabra Hummus and that the measure's opponents created the confusion regarding the referendum's meaning. But this is not the case. PCP's Facebook page STILL says that the referendum would call on the University "to replace Sabra Hummus in its stores with an alternative Hummus," and their online petition indicates that the referendum "would ask the University to stop selling Sabra Hummus." Frankly, it's been hard for us to follow PCP's inconsistent argument, so we can understand that voters might be a little confused.
That said, we are THRILLED to see based on Yoel's statement here that PCP has backpedaled and no longer sees its measure as a call on the University to halt sales of Sabra. While we still cannot support a referendum that singles out Sabra Hummus for sending care packages and providing moral support to eighteen year old Israeli soldiers, we think this is a welcome development. We're just sorry that this situation has been made so much more confusing thanks to this referendum's ambiguous language.
Two thoughts:
(1) Have you ever *tried* Sabra Hummus and it compared to the rest of the crap in this town? It's delicious.
(2) What do "Arabs" (as Yoel uses the term in an exceedingly orientalist fashion) want, to eat *bad* hummus that makes them feel better about themselves? Perhaps all dining halls should stop offering Chinese food until it stops its egregious human rights abuses? Maybe we should take all the chinese made clothes off our backs? Yet another hair-raising, intellectually dishonest campaign from the PCP - and it is not enough to backpedal later on, as in last year's Mandela fiasco, or alter the referendum language to hide the real intent. PCP knows what it's doing: be intellectually dishonest for the publicity effect, and then retreat later to appear innocent when they know only the most interested are still looking. A shame that students with such intellectual standards can fool the admissions office in the first place.
Olive's sells hummus at the U-Store? Isn't that an alternative brand already?
Are you kidding me? The stuff is trivial to make in Spelman or a food coop with a food processor:
3 cloves garlic
2 tbs olive oil
1 big or two little cans chick pease (bigger can please)
1 tbs lemon juice
3 tbs tahnini
pepper and salt
Put the blade in the food procesor. Turn it on. drop the cloves in there. Open the can, drain mostly, and dump it in. Now dump in the oil, tahini sauce, add lemon juice, pepper, and salt.
Taste. If too thin, add tahni. If too thick, add lemon juice and oil. Too bitter? Add salt. Too salty? Add lemon juice.
With practice, this entire recipe takes less than 3 minutes and costs around 2$, and it has no opinion on israel vs palestine.
Sorry, but, what's wrong with israel?
I suggest a counter referendum stipulating PCP should walk the walk, not just talk the talk.
If they want alternative hummus sold on campus, they should devote their time to offering the student market their own home made hummus at a price and taste level that drives sabra from the student market.
Perhaps when faced with this possibility, they would admit they are not interested in a real economic opposition to human rights violations (after all they would then all make their own clothes, a la Gandhi, and rip the Chinese ones from their backs), but rather an unfair and illegitimate delegitimization of Israel.
old crusty is right. Once you've made your own hummus, you'll never go back to the store-bought stuff. For an even fresher, more delicious flavor, boil your own chickpeas! Get some dried chickpeas, soak overnight, and boil the next day. Be warned: fresh hummus is dangerously good. Make sure you have friends to help you eat it, or you might be tempted to polish off the whole batch yourself.
lol this headline makes it look like we have too much time on our hands
I want to just say that politics aside, Sabra hummus is the best non home-made hummus. There is no comparison from other mass marketed hummus.
I agree with old_crusty and the spelmanites on the ease of making homemade hummus. Plus you can buy hummus in town or on the interwebs if you really have a problem with sabra.