In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. Now the Earth was formless and empty, chocolate was over the surface of the deep.....And on the 8th day, God said "Let there be cream cheese", and there was cream cheese and God saw the cream cheese was good and he separated the cream cheese from the chocolate . God called the cream cheese, dough, and he called chocolate, filling. Then he combined his creations by rolling them in a triangle and he called his creation, Rugelach.

Now as we know or don't know..rugelach is a Jewish pastry usually made in the form of a crescent by rolling a triangle of sour cream or cream cheese dough around a filling of items such as raisins,walnuts, cinnamon, fruit preserves, chocolate, poppy seeds, pistachio, or other fillings.

...And so it came to be that on an early August evening in the year of 2018, in the borough of Queens in New York City, in MY house, was a sealed plastic container of Reisman's Chocolate Rugleach. I had just brought home some Chinese food at a local take out restaurant for dinner around 6PM. The food included a pint of won ton soup and an egg roll for me and a pint of chicken with oyster sauce and small container of white rice to share with my wife. (She's not a big eater).

But being a bit hungry, I decided to sneak a chocolate rugelach in the sealed plastic container my wife had purchased. I doubted she would know I took one, stuffing my mouth just before dinner. But opening the sealed container, I pried open the unsealed side and then could not get it to close,no matter how much I tried pressing on the plastic edges. ...and thus when my wife came downstairs into the kitchen, I was caught basically with that "hands in the cookie jar" face.

My wife went ballistic for my being a sneak, for my snacking right before dinner with more than enough Chinese food for me, and because I broke the plastic container of rugelach. OMG OMG. You'd think the world was coming to an end. "Hell has no fury like a woman scorned." You'd think I had burnt down our house or totaled our car,or was caught cheating with our neighbor's sexy daughter.

The screaming and verbal attack was going on for what seemed like forever so I left the kitchen with my head down, very upset with myself and went upstairs to let my wife eat by herself. I came down to eat my Chinese food when she came upstairs as she continued in her vituperative rage.

Moving forward, that rugelach container is sealed on the side I broke with some Scotch tape. I am forbidden to touch it..So it's back to Ring Dings and Devil Dogs for me. I sometimes hide them in the trunk of my car or in a desk drawer so please don't tell my wife.