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The one where friends offended seven Jewish grandmothers with their brisket

Instead of picking one brisket recipe for a Rosh Hashanah meal, these college roommates combined their grandmothers' recipes into one. It did not go exactly as planned.
Left: Marissa Dates (clockwise from upper left), her mother, Ellen, her brother Nathan, her grandparents Bud and Diane. Right: Marissa's brisket.

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When Marissa Dates first tried to make her grandmother's brisket, things did not go exactly as planned. It was her senior year of college in Michigan, and Dates was living with six of her good friends.

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