These talking gefilte fish are getting out of hand.

The Israeli man who opened the gefilte fish jar, Garel S. Karp of Bnei Brak, said that the voice was speaking in English, but with a Yiddish accent. “I twisted the cap off the jar, there was a little pop, and suddenly there was a squeaky little voice saying: “Oy, vey, tomorrow’s the day. Time has come for Mister Saddam to show his bomb.” Karp expressed uncertainty over whether the last word might have been “bum.”

Karp’s wife, Sadie, confirmed his account. “I couldn’t believe it. Garel and I were sitting around the dinner table and we hear this little voice coming from the jar, just after he opened it. I looked inside the jar and I could see the jelly still quivering.”

There was no independent confirmation of the Karps’ claims. The gefilte fish was unavailable to answer this reporter’s questions, since the couple apparently consumed the fish soon after its utterances. “I don’t know whether its remarks were in good taste,” Sadie noted, but it sure tasted good.”