by Anura Guruge
on April 13, 2024
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Passover, in our times, can fall between March 26 and April 25.
So, April 22 is towards the end of that scale, but not at the very end.
Others years, in recent times, Passover has been in late April.
So, last time it fell on April 22 wasn’t that long ago, viz., 2016. Just 8 years ago. Prior to that 1959. That was a 57-year gap. The longest gap in the last 200 years.
Please don’t ask me to explain how the date for Passover is calculated. I have NO clue. I have a hard enough time trying to work out how Easter is calculated.
Thanks to the Jewish leap month,it took until after Easter for the yellow-capped Passover version of Coca-Cola to appear in stores.(The corn syrup typically used by bottlers in the USA (but not Mexico where sugar is much cheaper) is kosher for most of the year but not for Passover).
My household’s main Cola consumer is a friend who visits for about an hour a week,but keeping him supplied with the sucrose version is cheaper on a unit price version for this window,as otherwise it’s a matter of Mexican imports (I prefer to avoid modernized versions though I am not a cocaine-oriented reactionary).