For a long time, way before Commissary! even, we’ve sold #socialistslidingscalesoup. It’s always felt strange, like we’re this fancy place trying to virtue signal by having this cute gimmick. What person who needed a good bowl of soup was going to hear about an expensive vegan chocolate shop, then an overly precious little café, who made soup you could pay whatever you want for? That aspect of it always bothered me but since I’m an annoyingly earnest person we just kept making the soup. #themitzvahwall was an attempt to push this idea further, and mostly it’s just lovely middle-class people buying treats for their middle-class friends, but sometimes people come in because they want a meal or a treat and heard it’s a place to get one when you’re a bit strapped. Now, with the new reality, for the first time I feel like my paltry liberal-guilt efforts to, ah, be the change lol, are working a little more and I’m of course mad that life had to get worse in order for that to happen. People call us regularly because they’ve heard that you can get $20 of free food. No matter what, we’ll never turn anyone away from redeeming that $20, at least until this crisis passes and we reopen and the actual Mitzvah Wall is a thing again. We’ve been lucky that through generous gift card purchases from customers we’ve only rarely had to chip in from our own revenues in order to do $20 MitzMeals. All this is to say that we could use, if you’re feeling flush, another top-up of funds. We do roughly $200 of mitzvah meals a week at this point, which is not huge but it’s a simple way to serve our community. If you’d like to chip in, just purchase a gift card on our site and make a note that it’s for the mitzvah wall fund. Call us between 11-6 to redeem a $20 mitzvah. (This image is the making of our homemade shichimi togarashi for Sliding Scale Soup) —lagusta #mitzvah #shichimitogarashi (at New Paltz, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CANTbKcjEEJ/?igshid=izc8e5maut24
