Is turkey bacon kosher?

[Guinastasia]

Obviously real bacon, made from pigs is not. But what about turkey bacon? Can it be kosher? (If it’s prepared in the traditional manner)

[Exapno_Mapcase]

As long as it doesn’t contain non-kosher ingredients and is appropriately overseen as a kosher product, it will be a kosher product.

[cmkeller]

There’s nothing inherently non-kosher about a bacon-like product made entirely from turkey.

[Lemur866]

Isn’t there also a rule about being seen eating something that appears to be non-kosher but isn’t, because people could be confused about the kosher status of the product? Like, you can eat turkey bacon as long as it is clearly visible that the product isn’t actually non-kosher?

[Folly]

@Lemur866

Isn’t there also a rule about being seen eating something that appears to be non-kosher but isn’t, because people could be confused about the kosher status of the product? Like, you can eat turkey bacon as long as it is clearly visible that the product isn’t actually non-kosher?

Two words. Neon green!

[Anne_Neville]

There exists beef bacon that is kosher. There is also imitation vegetarian bacon that is kosher (Bac-Os is an example)

@Lemur866

Isn’t there also a rule about being seen eating something that appears to be non-kosher but isn’t, because people could be confused about the kosher status of the product? Like, you can eat turkey bacon as long as it is clearly visible that the product isn’t actually non-kosher?

There is. It’s mainly observed by Orthodox Jews:

@Hayim Halevy Donin

Use of butter and milk substitutes with meat: The development of pure vegetable products which “look and taste” like the dairy products they are intended to substitute (butter, cream, ice cream or sherbet, etc) has increased the variety possible in the preparation of kosher meals. There are no halakhic objections to their use in cooking or eating with meat meals. But since they may be mistaken for their dairy counterpart and it is important to avoid what the Sages call even “the appearance of transgression”, it is proper for purposes of identification that they be kept and served in the wrapper or container in which they come, or in any container which clearly designates the contents as parev

[Mama_Zappa]

@Anne Neville

Originally Posted by Hayim Halevy Donin, To Be a Jew
Use of butter and milk substitutes with meat: The development of pure vegetable products which “look and taste” like the dairy products they are intended to substitute (butter, cream, ice cream or sherbet, etc) has increased the variety possible in the preparation of kosher meals. There are no halakhic objections to their use in cooking or eating with meat meals. But since they may be mistaken for their dairy counterpart and it is important to avoid what the Sages call even “the appearance of transgression”, it is proper for purposes of identification that they be kept and served in the wrapper or container in which they come, or in any container which clearly designates the contents as parev

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I’ve heard this as well. In the context of a discussion of human breastmilk was kosher or pareve.

I think you can imagine the direction that conversation took

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[Martha_Medea]

I was once served fish moulded into shrimplike shapes in Israel. It only emphasised how much my more devout fellow Jews are missing out.

[Anne_Neville]

@Martha

I was once served fish moulded into shrimplike shapes in Israel. It only emphasised how much my more devout fellow Jews are missing out.

I have bought fish molded into shrimplike shapes at a kosher butcher in Oakland, CA. I have also bought kosher imitation crabmeat at the same place.

[C_K_Dexter_Haven]

it is important to avoid what the Sages call even “the appearance of transgression”, it is proper for purposes of identification that they be kept and served in the wrapper or container in which they come, or in any container which clearly designates the contents as parev

Thus, for example, a kosher caterer will usually have a little sign on the table to tell you that the margerine is parev… it’s not elegant to have the margerine still in its wrapper.