Nothing to really add about the almond in the rice pudding thing, but ths whole topic puts me in mind of the ersatz "German" tradition of hiding a pickle on the Christmas tree.
My German-born great-aunts always insisted that they have no idea about what everyone was telling them should be their ancestral tradition.
Catie:
>>the shoe store owner who stood in his doorway, handing out free running shoes to Wall Street women who’d otherwise have had to walk out of the zone in heels.
I hadn't heard that story. What an incredibly decent human being.
I beleive that was actually done during the blackout. Or, it was first done on 9/11 and others replicated by several others during the blackout. Last summer (blackout) my sister received a pair of black reeboks, and went back the next day or two to pay the guy who gave them to her. His store was full of flowers, bottles of booze and gift baskets of muffins and cheeses and golf stuff.
Another amusing episode was Brooklyn Borough President (a rather meaningless office) Marty Markowitz (who realizing the first parenthetical, considers himself Cheerleader-in-Cheif and Morale Officer) standing in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge, with his staff, handing out bottled water and band-aids to people who were walking home over the bridge(no trains), saying "Welcome Home." A nice gesture, but a tad insenstive for those who have another seven or eight miles to go....
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