If you could be a non-Jew for a day...

[dybmh]

Yeah, true dat. However, I gotta say: fried locusts taste exactly like Israeli potato chips.

Good to know...

 

[Harel13]

Good to know...

Cow udders, however, taste like rotten milk with a meaty texture.

 

[dybmh]

Cow udders, however, taste like rotten milk with a meaty texture.

oh dear...

 

[Harel13]

oh dear...

Exactly.

 

[Rival]

Yeah, true dat. However, I gotta say: fried locusts taste exactly like Israeli potato chips.

You're weird

I wouldn't touch the kosher locusts with a ten foot pole attached to a crane controlled by a computer on the other side of the world. Just the though of those spindly legs and beady eyes. As my daughter is fond of saying, "ichsa".

 

[Harel13]

You're weird

It was the chance of a lifetime. I don't regret it. Also, @Tumah has no idea what he's missing out on.

 

[Harel13]

Interesting fact of the day:
Kosher locusts have a certain shape on their abdomen that differentiates them from non-kosher specimens. Originally, it was seen as a כ for כשר. Later, they turned it around to become a ח for חלק. Nowadays it's looked at like a U as in OU...

 

[RabbiO]

In regard to the initial poll, in my youth I was, how shall I put, less concerned about the foods I ate. Those items hold no allure for me. Most people who know me are aware that for a number of years following my heart attack I was medically ordered by my Jewish cardiologist not to fast on Yom Kippur. The drinking oj thing doesn’t excite me. And since I am, unapologetically, a Reform Jew, I’ve never been concerned about an eiruv.

I guess if I became a non-Jew for a day, I would spend/waste most of the day trying to figure out what to do!

 

[IndigoChild5559]

I've heard that in America there are things like kosher bacon-flavored snacks. That sounds absolutely nuts to me. Sure, I have no reason to suspect that they aren't kosher - but gosh, here in Israel the Badatzs won't give their hechsher for a box of cereal featuring a basketball player. Of course, not every kashrut certifier has that standard, but I just don't get how any mashgiach would be comfortable with giving such a hechsher...

I've never tried a bacon flavored snack. However, there are companies that do nothing but vegetarian food that put out fake bacon and fake sausage, and they taste pretty good.

 

[Jake1001]

I’m a RJ, but I don’t eat much pork or lobster. Not because it’s not kosher, but because those foods are high in cholesterol.

Make sense ?

I'd start with bacon, move on to bbq ribs, then lobster....

The idea of making a sacrifice is a good one.

 

[Jake1001]

Rabbio, are you admitting you ate pork and shrimp as a young RJ ? Were you at the HUC treif dinner ?

Trefa Banquet - Wikipedia

In regard to the initial poll, in my youth I was, how shall I put, less concerned about the foods I ate. Those items hold no allure for me. Most people who know me are aware that for a number of years following my heart attack I was medically ordered by my Jewish cardiologist not to fast on Yom Kippur. The drinking oj thing doesn’t excite me. And since I am, unapologetically, a Reform Jew, I’ve never been concerned about an eiruv.

I guess if I became a non-Jew for a day, I would spend/waste most of the day trying to figure out what to do!

 

[Harel13]

Rabbio, are you admitting you ate pork and shrimp as a young RJ ? Were you at the HUC treif dinner ?

Trefa Banquet - Wikipedia

Spill Jake, how old is @RabbiO?

 

[Harel13]

I’m a RJ, but I don’t eat much pork or lobster. Not because it’s not kosher, but because those foods are high in cholesterol.

I've heard people try to explain the reasoning of eating kosher because it's for health and hygiene. If you've ever been to a kosher restaurant, you know there's no health and hygiene involved...

 

[RabbiO]

Rabbio, are you admitting you ate pork and shrimp as a young RJ ? Were you at the HUC treif dinner ?

Trefa Banquet - Wikipedia

1) I was never a young Reform Jew. However, when I was young, yes, I did eat pork, shrimp and other similar foods. No, I was not at the dinner.
2) Fellow named Avi asked me about that dinner way back in 2013 in a Same Faith Debates thread - Jewish Only: Studies. My reply was post #34.

 

[Harel13]

2) Fellow named Avi asked me about that dinner way back in 2013 in a Same Faith Debates thread - Jewish Only: Studies. My reply was post #34.

There was a mention of it on one of the old DIR threads, too. That's how I first heard of it, a few days ago, while skimming the old threads.

 

[RabbiO]

Spill Jake, how old is @RabbiO?

Let’s just say that I wish my beard was as dark as the beard on my avatar.

 

[Harel13]

Let’s just say that I wish my beard was as dark as the beard on my avatar.

And that's saying something, considering the actual shade of that beard...

 

[RabbiO]

There was a mention of it on one of the old DIR threads, too. That's how I first heard of it, a few days ago, while skimming the old threads.

I do stand by the remarks I made back in 2013 about the banquet.

 

[Harel13]

I do stand by the remarks I made back in 2013 about the banquet.

I think you wrote the same in that other thread I found (can't remember which one). Maybe you just copy/pasted it .

 

[IndigoChild5559]

I’m a RJ, but I don’t eat much pork or lobster. Not because it’s not kosher, but because those foods are high in cholesterol.

Make sense ?

I was raised without pork or shellfish, but as a young adult I developed different views. It was when I turned middle aged that I became strictly kosher. But having tried these foods, now I crave them from time to time.