Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Forget strawberries ...... read this

I kid you not: Just an hour ago I went over the road to the Kosher bakery to get my salad (Greek, extra olives, no tomato). I met a senior Mashgiach of the Toronto kashrut supervisory agency, COR, and we started chatting. There are witnesses to this conversation. I mentioned strawberries, which he found amusing. He then went on to describe some of the problems that they are dealing with ........ including THE CHASHASH KITNIOT on Pesach Coca Cola BECAUSE OF THE ...... C A R B O N D I O X I D E (ie the bubbles!). THE BUBBLES ARE OSSUR (for Askkenazim). Apparently the CO2 may be generated from kitniyos. So -- the gas -- the AIR -- the bubbles -- are ossur. Makes the Kedassia / strawberry ban look, well, inflated ........

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

GOOD MORNING TO YOU BRINGER OF OLD NEWS AT LEAST FOUR YEARS CERTAIN PPL HAVE COLA BROUGHT IN FROM ISRAEL WITH THE EIADAH ACHREIDUS BUT THEN AGAIN YOUR CANADIAN. LOL