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Tell me - what's a "tsimmes"?

CATS CAVORTING:
Where would we be without our cats to tell us when to wake, when to nap, and when to prepare a snack? The Wicked Twins and their sisfur Hadarah invite you to join them for a bit of mischief and madness in their Feline Frolics.

Tao of Meow
The Wicked Twins (Dwnn and Taliesin) share Chinese Horoscope lore, philosophy, and meditations at the internet's original feline ashram.
Hadarah
Tour Castle Gwyndd, home of Her Imperial Majesty, Empress of All.

Caterwaul Chronicle
Entertaining monthly mewspaper purrblished by
tomzrule® privut klubb fur boyz.
Memfurship open to tomz who need a place where they can be their caturally gross and disgusting seffs.

HUMAN INTERESTS:

Commonplace Book
Some favorite poems, applets, and graphics in an online scrapbook.

HOLIDAYS & CATS:
Chinese New Year traditions told by Dwnn in his Chinese Horoscope section of Tao of Meow.
There wouldn't be a USA without the *revolting behavior of toms* July 4th page, Toms in the Revolution.

The days grow colder, the nights grow longer. Here comes Hanukkah! The Wicked Twins invite you to their Hanukkah Traditions page.

Leo Rosten, in his incomparable Joys of Yiddish, writes this definition:

tsimmes
Prounounced TSIM-mess, to rhyme with "Kim Less." From two German words: zum "to the" and essen "eating."
1. A side dish of mixed cooked vegetables and fruits, slighty sweetened. The ingredients may be carrots and peas, prunes and potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc.
2. A dessert of stewed fruits.
Since making tsimmes took time and various mixings, the word came to mean:
3. A prolonged procedure; an involved business; a mixup. "Don't make a whole tsimmes out of it." (Don't blow it up out of proportion ; why make a federal case of it?) "It's no tsimmes to me." (It doesn't bother me very much.) "Trouble? It was a regular tsimmes (It was a mess, a mix-up, a real stew.)
4 Troubles, difficulties, contretemps.

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