MundersOWundus
Rabbinical law is fucking wild.

Non-jews: guess if turkey bacon is kosher. (now with Vampire Halacha!)
Mrs Sheepie
is something about the preparation non-kosher? /completely judaism-blind
MundersOWundus
Assuming the bird was kashered, the actual answer is:
MundersOWundus
It’s kosher,
Mrs Sheepie
but
MundersOWundus
unless you thought it was pork bacon, and ate it anyway
MundersOWundus
in which case you have to atone as if you ate pork
MundersOWundus
If nobody reasonable could be under the misapprehension that it’s pork, it’s kosher
MundersOWundus
Because the point of the laws are to foster an awareness of where your food comes from and how it was treated
Rival Fenix
that is a good law.
monsterkiss%
i do like the 'don't look like you're breaking the law even if you're not actually breaking it' rule
monsterkiss%
because it leads to things like 'if you're a vampire drinking blood you should make it very obvious you are a vampire, maybe wear a cape and go "bleh" a lot'
monsterkiss%
NekoInc, MSPM
I love it
MundersOWundus
I’m so glad to have a link to Vampire Halacha again
Echo
See, this is why I like Judaism. You ask the Catholics about vampires and they just give you that look and complain about people taking the whole "this is His body and this is His blood" thing too literally.
Tɪᴇʟ Dᴇᴀʀ
I feel a deep kinship to rabbis willing to over analyze a theoretical/fictional/impossible situation like. Kosher vampires.
Tɪᴇʟ Dᴇᴀʀ
Also, I would like some turkey bacon now
Echo
Ooh, that would be good.
MundersOWundus
also as someone who used to work for the kitchens at a job corps:

I cannot think of any possible situation in which turkey bacon wouldn't be kosher, since literally no one would ever mistake it for actual bacon
sailor bii
hahaha that's v true about turkey bacon
Vehrec
Vat grown meat is the big ??? of hypothetical kosher debates these days, isn't it?
Vehrec
answers range from 'none of it is kosher' to 'it's kosher, but only beef' to 'all of it is kosher, because these aren't really animals, are they?'
MundersOWundus
at least some of the answer is "if it's indistinguishible from pork, does eating it encourage others to eat pork?"
MundersOWundus
at least part of the Law is about not encouraging others to break the Law, through word or deed. And visibly eating something indistinguishable from pork might do that.
MundersOWundus
but I can't see a reason why you couldn't eat vatbeef without blood in it, as long as it was properly supervised and blessed
MundersOWundus
nothing had to die, so the law about killing it instantly without pain doesn't apply
MundersOWundus
and beef is already kosher
MundersOWundus
(as is fowl. fish is even parve)
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i have a fun kosher story
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so my parents were housing refugees from... must have been the vietnam war? and they taught them where the dairy and meat dishes were and that they separated them
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so one day mom comes down after telling the wife of the couple that they were having tuna fish, and saw she'd set out the meat plates (my parents usually used dairy plates as default)
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and she was like "you're not wrong, but why?"
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and the woman lifted up the can and pointed to where it said "Chicken of the Sea"
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(also Dad still gets a Christmas card from the husband every year. he tries...)
Tɪᴇʟ Dᴇᴀʀ
I mean, can't argue with that
MundersOWundus
you know, I appreciate the scrupulosity
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