Is he just Parve?

My friend went on a few dates with a nice Jewish boy. He has a good personality, smart, and treats her respectfully. He is a Jewish mother’s dream. However, to my friend, he is just Parve.

As someone that grew up not ever tasting real ice-cream or pizza due to my dairy allergy, I’m familiar with parve. I accept its blandness and I look forward to a nice piece of chocolate parve cake. Yet, while I accept the lack of sensation so inherent to “pareveness” I also know that the way I feel about my parve cookie is nothing compared to how it must feel taste crème brulee or a rich, creamy cheesecake. I am not saying I settle for a parve guy, but maybe I accept a parve dessert more than most. You need to give parve a second chance because maybe it is top-notch parve.

What is a parve person? It is someone who you keep around to pass the time. You can’t find anything wrong but he doesn’t excite you. A parve guy, you go on a date with when you have nothing else to do that night and you don’t want to cook. Parve is someone that is neither really attractive nor really funny and when it comes to breaking it off with him there are no real reasons but just that he is parve.

The other day, my roommate was craving chocolate, and she debated going out to the store in the rain or settling for one of the parve cookies I keep in the house. She ended up eating one of them but was not satisfied. She went to bed unfulfilled and the next day bought a Snickers Bar. A parve guy will not satisfy a craving, he’ll only stave it off.

We have all been on dates with parve people and I know for someone else, they’ll be full of “milk and honey”. So what is my friend doing about her parve guy? She knows he is around after a meat meal which is why she is not saying to him “I am all set with you.” However, my advice to anyone that is stringing a parve person along because they have nothing better to do, let him or her go. It is not fair to either of you and time is being wasted. As for me, R is Chocolate Mousse! Happy Passover