Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy

fair yeah! I'm a weird dweeb who, when as a 14 year old atheist was tasked to decide whether to continue going to jewish day school for high school or to switch to public school, went with option a because, quote "i want to know what i'm rejecting before rejecting it", and boy was the joke on me, because i lost touch with my atheism, or at least how strongly i felt it, in the process. But my experience of judaism was always much more strongly mediated by household ritual than synagogue ritual anyways, and by a mom who considered herself not shomer shabbat but zocher shabbat (i.e. not "guarding" it through orthopraxy so much as "remembering" it by making intentional choices with respect to it, whether or not they're in keeping with the guidelines of any of the conservative/orthodox/reform/reconstructing/renewal/whatever movements, and i always thought that this was a clever way to actualize the change in verbiage between the two different versions of the ten commandments), so picking and choosing what was most meaningful and what was, exactly as you say, "pointless rules" and could be set aside never felt like a contradiction or an incongruity. So when i finally moved into a place of my own it felt very viscerally that something would be missing if i didn't do Something to make my household jewish in nature, and for me that doesn't mean (e.g. in this case) getting a new set of dishes and buying only heckshered potato chips, but does mean boiling all of what i do use and avoiding items with wheat explicitly in the ingredient list.

in any case, sourdough is an excellent idea that i just might join in on, i haven't gone post-pesach shopping yet and that might have to be included in the list 🤔

Ah you may be right; I thought it was a soft bread or a brioche from afar.