What I Wish My Christian (and Atheist and Generally Non-Jewish) Friends Knew about Judaism Vol. 1

[morzsa]

What I Wish My Christian (and Atheist and Generally Non-Jewish) Friends Knew about Judaism Vol. 1 is dealing with a very important topic. That is, burgers. As a brief introduction to Jewish dietary laws, also known as Kashrut, I'd like to mention two big no-no's: one is pork, the other is eating milk and meat together. Various people observe this

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[thespian15]

One burger, hold the cheese. :)
I would have sooo much trouble being Jewish. :o
Hugs, Jon

[morzsa]

Well, many Jews absolutely don't care about keeping kosher...

[thespian15]

I am a bit surprised. :o

[morzsa]

Welcome to my LJ! It is now my tertiary blog, so I haven't been around much either in the past 3 years.

[bozotkutya]

At least the fast food chain with the scary clown doesn't sell rabbit burgers :)

Kashrut is so illogical! (well, religions are illogical....:)

[morzsa]

How do you know? The meat pulp they use can be anything.

[bozotkutya]

Well, I guess it's more like rat and mice and spiders :) I do wonder if spiders are considered kosher :P

[morzsa]

Nope, they aren't. Neither are mice or rats. :P

[vilakins]

Hi there! I'm not wildly strict as I don't bother to keep separate dishes or have separate sinks, but I won't eat milchig and fleishig together either. And it makes sense too: that's a really good culture to grow bacteria in. And yes, eating carnivores: generally not a good idea with all the toxins.

I had a fish burger without cheese yesterday just because I don't like that orange stuff. And as for the whole avoiding pork/bacon thing, it's very hard here (NZ). Most sandwiches seem to contain it and when I go on courses or whatever, it's just easier and a lot safer (also given my fussiness about the quality of meat anyway) to say I'm vegetarian.

Still: I've had pizzas that had bacon on them when I've asked for not. I've been offered pumpkin soup with ham in it with the puzzled and plaintive response to my reaction: "But it is vegetarian; it's got pumpkin in it

[morzsa]

The vegetarian thing doesn't much work for me, either, when I'm in Hungary.

Haha, I've been in Israel about three years now. I start to get along conversationally, but I can barely read the language.

[vilakins]

When I was there I'd cheat and pick an old person and use Yiddish if I couldn't express what I wanted in Hebrew. I did a refresher class last year and it was surprising what came back to me. :-)

Rodney icon! [deploys one of own]

[morzsa]

I usually hang out with younger people, who speak English, or with Anglos, so I hardly ever need to actually speak Hebrew. The green grocer and dairy shop I go to are owned by Hungarian olim, so I speak Hungarian with them. No one ever speaks to me in big stores anyway. :)