GNP is KO certified by Kosher Service, if I’m not mistaken.
I’m honestly having a hard time figuring out whether that page design is intended ironically or not.
Nice MIDI by the way. Is that “Funkytown?”
Why not just market hot cross buns? “Christ, these are good!”
http://www.instructables.com/id/EIF5VAH1AUEQZJJNLN/ GNP’s contain carmine- made from crushed cochineal insect. Yet they bear the Ko certification. Somebody needs to explain the situation.
I also don’t see the Ko certification on this list of reliable marks http://www.instructables.com/id/EIF5VAH1AUEQZJJNLN/
If it’s been going for some time it’s likely not just a certification error on the GNP. “resinous glaze” may be zein, a corn protein. So I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt there. But carmine, AFAIK, refers only to a dye made from crushed bug shells. It is entirely unkosher. I can only conclude that Novaseller’s have a unique view of kashrut, or a whores with rabbinical degrees.
Take that for what you will: I have no idea whether this answer is convincing to folks who keep kosher.
I’m familiar with the ‘it ceases to be food argument’ the same reasoning is used by some authorities when it comes to gelatin. In short, if a dog would not eat it then under Jewish law it ceases to be food and kashrut no longer applies.
I have never heard the argument applied to carmine before and am suspicious. I am also suspicious that the quote addresses carmine and cochineal as two different things when I have only read that they are two names for the same substance.
hmm.
Only one? That hardly means they all need it.
Point taken. Now let’s find out if Kosher salt must *always *be prepared under rabbinical supervision. I say no.
Scuba Ben already state that the supervisor does not need to be a rabbi.
It’s such an ignorant idea and ridiculous, all salt is kosher. This inventor guy is a dumbass, one thing doesn’t follow another. Kosher(ing) Salt describes its use. It’s used to draw blood from meat to make meat Kosher. No blessing by the Rabbi ever.
What’s the use for this Christian Salt?
… Hmmm. Well, I can see it being a useful addition to a vampire and zombie hunters kit. One can fill the zombie or vampires mouth with the blessed salt and sew it shut.
Is there some sort of standard rabbinical dog used for applying that reasoning? Because I’ve known some dogs for whom nothing would ever qualify as “not food”.
You know, I don’t consider myself much of a Christian, but as a former Christian, the vampire zombie Christian bashing is kinda insulting. Where in the bible does it speak of vampires and zombies?
The ancient Hebrews defined a “dog” as any creature without wings and fewer than six legs that is not a fish, and which chews the cud, but does not draw blood from insects with cloven hooves on the Sabbath.
Later, it was acknowledged that an insect with cloven hooves that was also either a zombie or vampire, but did not chew the blood, could also be certified as a “dog,” so long as it had never tasted the fruit of its own cud.
I’m sure scholars have argued over just what constitutes a dog and what constitutes not eating.
Does anybody actually use kosher salt to kosher meat? If I buy meat at a kosher butcher hasn’t that already been done for me?
Presumably, the kosher butcher.
#77 posts before a mention of that SDMB meme, bacon salt?
Yes, people use kosher salt to kasher meat. OTTOMH Empire and Shofar brand meats and poultry carry stickers certifying ‘This meat is kosher so far. It will not be fully kosher until salted and cooked’. I don’t know where the nearest shochet (kosher butcher) is in Philly. I can go to Acme, Superfresh etc and buy kosher brands of meat and kosher salt.
It’s a staple of vampire fiction that holy (i.e., blessed) water is dangerous to them. It would reasonably follow that blessed salt would be similar.
And here’s what will really blow your mind… The Christian Salt is Kosher!
And very likely, his other planned “Christian” products (Rye Bread, Pickles, and Bagels) will by their very nature also be Kosher.