Tuesday 1 January 2019

Bread

For the most part, Tyson’s rather relaxed in his practice of Judaism, but it is still very important to him. He may only make the effort to eat Kosher on Saturdays, but he makes sure to each Kosher on every Saturday. Sharing meals is an important part of Jewish culture, even more so ‘breaking bread’, specially Challah.
If Tyson is willing to share bread - not a sandwich, but specially a loaf or roll of bread - with you, you are very important to him. Even if the bread he offers you isn’t Challah, the symbolism is still there to Tyson. He’s unlikely to explain how important sharing bread is to him, unless directly asked, because - for the most part - Tyson keeps his religion private.
If Tyson is willing to share actually Challah with you on the Sabbath, you are something Tyson is willing to die for.
If someone rejects Tyson’s offer of bread, he’s unlikely to take offense; being someone who views eating a chore generally, he understands not wanting to take the food. The exceptions to this are people Tyson knows to be Jewish - as he’d expect them to understand the symbolism - and people who he’s explained the meaning to. Even if the bread isn’t eaten, Tyson prefers that the person accepts the bread from him. 
Amongst Tyson’s many other food quirks, he can comfortably eat bread on its own without complaint. However, he hates eating sandwiches without butter in them as he finds them too dry; even if they already have something like jam in them. That is most likely a carryover from packed lunches of varying quality made by the staff at the family manor when Tyson was at primary school.
Bread is amongst those foods that Tyson knows how to make and, whilst he’ll spend half the time whining about how the dough sticks to his hands, making bread is something Tyson genuinely enjoys doing. He finds it to be a very satisfying process and he’s always proud of what he makes.