(And if there IS a market for that, I will well and truly eat my (kosher) hat!)
Why is it ridiculous? it is no different than an English person wanting to find somewhere that sells baked beans or good bacon, or a South African wanting to find Biltong. Just because the food items is part of their religious observance does not mean they are pushing their religion down your throat, they are asking a simple question, end of.
Obviously you have a bit of a chip on your shoulder.
Kosher also means that meat and dairy are not to be served from the same place of preparation. In addition, fish is allowed, but any seafood does that does not have fins and scales, is not allowed.
The list is quite long...
Candied jellies covered in dark chocolate are what my grandmother always had when we were kids. No dairy, so you could eat them with either milk or meat.
As for me, I don't keep Kosher, but I'm glad I know know about the icz list. When we move to Zurich next year, I do want to check out the stores in wiedikon.
So thanks for all the responses.
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Me, I'm only half Jewish, - my dad was raised in an Orthodox home (he also ate a lot of bacon outside the home). My grandmother would bring her own food to our house if she came for dinner, later on, just her own meat wrapped in foil - she'd eat non meat stuff in our house.
well I would certainly try it.....even out of curiosity.
When your stores are stocking for specific needs of some religious rite, as in this case of a Rabbi observing the production of chocolate?
Good grief, next thing you know people will need a section at Migros for Scientology observed food & chocolate too...Do you see items at the grocer that have been blessed by a priest?...No
That is the issue, food is food and like I mentioned earlier, the idea of catering to the religious whims of minority groups is not something I subscribe to...It's like the head scarves or yamakas in school...You want to practice your religion, do it in your home or at your place of worship - why advertise
And chocolate?...Really?...If I handed you a piece of chocolate blessed by me, a rabbi, a mullah or priest, would you know the difference?...Would anyone?...It's nonsensical, IMHO
People want to buy kosher chocolate, so other people make it and sell it to them: this is called commerce. You might not like it, but it's what keeps most of us in work.
You really should have paid more attention in school, old chap.
And BTW, those Lindt dark chocolate bars are often Kosher and Parve(neither meat nor dairy), if they contain no dairy. Lots of the excellence ones are.
He "did" our animals for eating .... Killed it (cut throat) and then hung it up overnight ... for the blood to drain out.
I have once seen meat where the blood had not drained out .... a buck killed by auto on the road ..... and the meat had blood clots in it. Of course we tried to save the waste of an animal freshly killed - but after transporting the carcass, realised the non-blood letting prevented it being edible, for us.
So, to my simple way of thinking ..... most all meat has the blood drained out, huh? .. otherwise no-one would want to eat it, with dark blobby blood clots all over...?
Or does the animal have to be kept alive while it`s blood is draining out...?