I saw a TV documentary recently- on NatGeo I believe- that said some kosher Jews (I’m guessing the “super kosher”- the kind who are also orthodox and count their steps on Sabbath) will not eat turkey because it’s not mentioned in Jewish dietary law. Some kosher Jews will because the only birds forbidden in the law are scavengers and birds of prey and turkey are neither, but some of the ‘X-Treem Kosher’ have a “turkeys weren’t known so they weren’t mentioned one way or the other, so why take chances?” philosophy. Presumably they won’t eat emu or the 4 Winged Ice Birds from Titan or anything else that’s not either specifically mentioned or covered under a blanket rule (like animals that chew their cud or fish or whatever) either.
For some reason I thought that said “Turkish bacon.” I was trying really hard to make sense out of “Turkish bacon” for a while there. :smack:
Yeqah, but those schmucks will take whatever excuse they can find to act holier-than-thou. Most Jews have no problem with the bird - in fact, Israel is the largest per capita consumer of turkey in the world, by a large margin.
I figured this was more like the Jewish version of fanatical vegans and not indicative of the general kosher community. I didn’t know that about turkeys and Israel, though I knew that chicken farming was huge there.
I’ll note the price when next in the Kroger’s that has it. Mrs. Plant and my Stepdaughter pour tahini over falafel. And it didn’t keep for me in the frig.
The new…well, only…Modern Orthodox Rabbi invited us for Passover several years ago when we were new to the Synagogue, and mentioned that he paid an exorbitant amount for a Kosher goose. This is Arkansas, not a lot of market here. I think Kosher meat is available in Memphis. 
Couldn’t he cowboy up and kill the goose himself?
Say what?
Buy a live goose and do the shechitah himself.
Not everybody’s a shochet, you know; it’s a fairly rare and specialized thing, requiring training, specialized knives, and passing written and practical exams. I know a total of three (AFAIK), of all of the several thousand Orthodox people I know. None of them are synagogue rabbis: one sells tow trucks, one (my husband, actually) is in finance, and one does actually work for the OU in kashrut, but doesn’t do any slaughtering professionally himself, other than teaching a shechita class each year at Yeshiva University.
I wish I had a nickel for every time I’ve had to remind people of that.
I just want to profess my love for canned gefilte. I know that it breaks my grandmother’s heart every pesach, but I love eating the stuff right out of the jar.
He is a Schochet. No facilities to raise or butcher the animals. When he found out we lived on five acres in the woods, he wanted us to raise chickens for him. Mrs. Plant and I determined that we would have fifty new pets and declined.
The synagogue couldn’t pay him and he left. They are on second Rabbi since him. He was a trip at Purim, though.
…And I’m posting on Shabbes. Darn. :smack:
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many of the recipies and food mentioned seem to come form the Ashkenazic (European) Jewish traditions, while not many from the Sephardim Sephardic (Iberian) jewish tradition. Some of the Separdic food I have had in the past, especially the Pesach specialties are AWESOME - Everyone shoudl try Sepharic Charoset. It is made from dates as opposed to apples, and i felt it had a much smoother texture - I see it representing mortar better then a chunky charoset made of diced apples
and no one mention anything about Kosher wine. Every major wine producing country in the world now makes some greta kosher wines. I hope the food festival got to show that off (but I guess being a kosher wine salesperson I would know thie really well)
Thanks for all the recipes. I’m going to try a couple this week.