stephan huller

Toto,

Your making it difficult for me to complain about the misuse of the word kosher. Here are a list of a few more things in this article - kosher water, kosher dog food, kosher condoms - all developed from the argument used for kosher salt i.e. strict manufacturing oversight

http://www.frumsatire.net/2011/04/12...sher-dog-food/

I think it is satirical but you never know ...

No apparently the 'kosher dog food' is for real, rabbinic oversight and everything. Seriously

http://www.evangersdogfood.com/about/kosher.html

So too the 'kosher water' there are now a number of companies that offer it apparently:

http://www.kosherwater.com/

http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_ang...rket_20080509/

I found a justification for 'kosher condoms' here and it follows the idea for 'kosher salt' and pickles: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...3140851AAOfNEE

and last but not least - 'kosher toilet bowl cleaner'



Maybe one more - a blogger making a list of kosher restaurants open on Shabbos
http://www.frumsatire.net/2009/09/15...en-on-shabbos/

Sheshbazzar

My congregation was and is very conscientious about using only Kosher certified gelatin.
According to the manufacture, the popular store brand 'Jello' gelatin is made with pig bones. No problem of course if you are not Torah observant.

George S

Wait, wait. Does the restaurant hire only gentiles to serve on Shabbos, working as wait-staff being forbidden to the more conservative Jews? Can a gentile serve a plate of kosher food and not contaminate it with his pig-molecule-laden breath?

stephan huller

It's not just pig molecule laden breath. The Samaritans in the early period used to urinate or take fire to purify any place that had contact with Gentiles. The Gentiles are impure by the very nature of their being. That's why the slaves of Jews had special laws pertaining to them too.