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Enjoy: http://www.thepoxbox.com/what.php?id=kos her

summary: find food with these symbols on them ( bellow ) at your grocery store. You're paying a religious man to free your food of evil.

My cookies shall be saved! Now to find some holy milk and we are in business.

where are my damn Christ-flakes?

How is this relevant again?

I looked hard at the Kosher fail in hope id find one of those symbols which would make it even more amusing. Alas I cant. Here it is if anyone can spot something I couldnt.

And here I thought kosher was just a dietary law.

At 10/14/08 01:26 AM, poxpower wrote: Enjoy: http://www.thepoxbox.com/what.php?id=kos her

summary: find food with these symbols on them ( bellow ) at your grocery store. You're paying a religious man to free your food of evil.

And? If you buy something else you're paying a CEO for the gold plating on his shark tank.

This is either a topic about the secret Jew conspiracy or a topic about nothing.

To clarify, I wouldn't buy kosher food if there was an identical heathen brand available for cheaper. However, sometimes kosherification is something that premium brands include just to cover their bases, and there's no substitute of equal quality.

Example: Let's say I'm buying juice concentrate, and the fruitopia happens to be on sale (so it's a reasonable price instead of way too high, as it usually is). From experience, I know that my favourite fruitopia flavour has no off-brand equivalent (i.e. no-name/master choice/our compliments/whatever), and i also enjoy it more than any of the flavours available in the off-brand range.

In this case, the price is right, and the quality of the product can't be replaced with an off-brand equivalent. However, fruitopia products are (usually) kosher, because Coca-Cola has decided that the cost of having it blessed is worth the extra sales they can make to fanatics (Note the distinction: are we paying more, or is the company merely receiving more market share in exchange for their expense? On large volume products, it's entirely possible for the latter to occur with no need to raise prices).

In situations like this, I really don't care whether or not my consumer habits keep some beard jockey in business. Someone gets a free ride, nut jobs are happy, and there's no demonstrable detriment to me. Is there a particular reason that I should refuse to buy the product in this case?

I would buy kosher wine out of curiousity.

Lol, irony.

At 10/14/08 10:35 AM, ThePretenders wrote: Lol, irony.

That's what funny about Google ads; the algorithms just look for key words within the text on the webpage without considering whether the subject is being praised or lambasted. There was an article on a Dutch right-wing website about boycotting Egypt some time ago and right to next to it there were Google ads that offered discount prices for Red Sea diving in Egypt.

I add raw bacon to all meals as a precaution against kosherness.

bacon makes my pure white body strong against the semite onslaught

At 10/14/08 07:37 AM, Elfer wrote: are we paying more, or is the company merely receiving more market share in exchange for their expense?

Not important: you are keeping a spell-casting magic man in employ to go around blessing food.
That's just retarded, I don't want any of that bullshit in the modern world, even if big companies will do it out of greed.

And seriously, I can't believe YOU reached for the "anti-semite" thing. Dear lord, you should know that I hate any and all religions and pseudo-sciences. If I found out tomorrow that cough drops were inspected by crystal healers, I'd tell everyone to leave that shit on the shelves.

At 10/14/08 10:35 AM, ThePretenders wrote: Lol, irony.

haha yeah :P
I don't choose the ads

with some food there is an actual discernable difference that will affect the final outcome of the food
be it quality, or ingredients, or whatever else - take kosher salt, for instance
im in culinary school and one of the first things we learned: always use iodized (table) salt for baking unless the recipie says otherwise, always use kosher salt for cooking unless the recipie says otherwise
why?
kosher salt is more coarse, and therefore better for seasoning during most cooking processes, but table salt is more preferable for baking, because unlike during cooking (the two are distinctly different, though both can be classified as 'cooking') the salt doesnt dissolve in most cases, and you dont want it to more thourougly mix in, for seasoning meals after having been cooked table salt should be used, because its a finer salt, and since it wouldnt be dissolving during the cooking process (the foods already been cooked) table salt allows you to use less, give more flavor to the food, and not end up literally having to chew the salt along with your meal
that being said, if someone wants to buy it for other reasons thats fine too, to each their own

At 10/14/08 04:51 PM, poxpower wrote:

At 10/14/08 07:37 AM, Elfer wrote: are we paying more, or is the company merely receiving more market share in exchange for their expense?

Not important: you are keeping a spell-casting magic man in employ to go around blessing food.
That's just retarded, I don't want any of that bullshit in the modern world, even if big companies will do it out of greed.

Boo hoo. I'm sure if we traded religious pandering with racial pandering (say, making special efforts not to offend a particular race), then you wouldn't be complaining as loudly.

Besides, Jewish food is tasty.

At 10/14/08 01:26 AM, poxpower wrote: summary: find food with these symbols on them ( bellow ) at your grocery store. You're paying a religious man to free your food of evil.

Am I paying a man to exorcise my food?
From my former understanding and my brief overview of Wikipedia a rabbi or priest doesn't actually have to "bless" the food. It's a law that tells what foods you can't have, special ways other foods have to be prepared, and what foods aren't allowed to be mixed on the same day (I think dairy and meat is one).
When they put a label that says the food is kosher, it means a rabbi has either inspected it, or that the producer believes it complies with Jewish dietary regulation. Linkage. So basically those symbols mean jack-shit since different states don't actually require a rabbi to inspect the food.

ZOMG TWO WIKI LINKS AT ONCE?!?!?!

I'm a Latino, but I like Kosher...
Because, if it's Kosher, it has to be people friendly...

Which is good to the immigrant people who creates and harvest the foods within this population, or imported from other places.

One amazing piece, I remember, had to do with Starbucks.
This was like... 2002, or 2003. And the news broke out that some of their coffee beans were harvested by enslaved Brazilian boys, abducted from cities and forced to labor in these coffee camps.

The Jews heard of this and said that Starbucks was unkosher... until Starbucks ensured that its food was free of human cruelty.

And, yup.
Starbucks changed its tune real quick...

although, I'm sure it would had changed nonetheless... but I think their actions helped out the process to be quicker.

While I may not be a kosher eater...
It sits with me very well.

At 10/14/08 05:05 PM, karlu20 wrote:

that being said, if someone wants to buy it for other reasons thats fine too, to each their own

Buy anything you want for whatever reasons you want, I just think people ought to know what they're buying. Part of a consumer's power is selecting what he buys.

Also kosher salt isn't necessarily ESPECIALLY kosher. Because salt is kosher by itself anyway.
So yeah if you found a little "k" sign on a box of salt, you'd be paying to make sure an already kosher food is kosher, i.e. you'd be getting ripped off.

At 10/14/08 05:09 PM, dySWN wrote:

Boo hoo. I'm sure if we traded religious pandering with racial pandering (say, making special efforts not to offend a particular race), then you wouldn't be complaining as loudly.

How would that even work?
And if there was some "black approved food" sign, I would boycot that shit. What the fuck would that even mean?

At 10/14/08 05:16 PM, Prinzy2 wrote:

When they put a label that says the food is kosher, it means a rabbi has either inspected it, or that the producer believes it complies with Jewish dietary regulation.

If you want one of the symbols above, I'm pretty sure you actually need to have a Rabbi physically inspect it ( or you pay the company ). They probably protect the mark to make sure the standards are upheld.
I was just making fun of them with the food-blessing and all that, but it is indeed quite stupid. A Rabbi is NOT an health inspector, he doesn't have any business telling people what they should eat.

At 10/14/08 05:19 PM, fli wrote: Because, if it's Kosher, it has to be people friendly...

No, not really.
http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm

I like this one:
"Grape products made by non-Jews may not be eaten. "

What do you call that? If I said "I don't eat any wine that comes from a Jew", you'd instantly jump on me for being anti-semitic.

oops

Actually wait a tic, I'm confused:

" In addition, the OU is the world's largest kosher certifying agency. Some of the famous companies that carry the OU symbol include Coca-Cola, General Mills, Heinz, Kraft Foods, Nabisco Biscuit Co., Pillsbury, Procter & Gamble, and Veryfine Products. The OU certifies over 2300 companies with 4500 plants in 70 countries with a total of over 300,000 labels." "

Does this mean that all the products these companies put out are kosher, or just that these companies put out kosher products that carry the OU symbol?

At 10/14/08 06:10 PM, Imperator wrote:

Does this mean that all the products these companies put out are kosher

I don't think it means ALL of them are, but there's a shitload.
I've seen stats that say anywhere from 1/3rd to 3/4th of packaged products are certified kosher.

I can understand the position that rabbis inspecting food is silly and a waste of time or money but I can't understand the position of purposely seeking out non-kosher food since sanitation requirements are way more stringent for kosher food than non-kosher. The article you linked to even says so.

"For example, the laws regarding kosher slaughter are so sanitary that kosher butchers and slaughterhouses have been exempted from many USDA regulations."

At 10/14/08 05:34 PM, poxpower wrote: I like this one:
"Grape products made by non-Jews may not be eaten. "

What do you call that?

I don't know what to call it but you're literally asking us to do the same exact thing. The article says the restriction came from the fact that wine made from non-Jews was commonly used in pagan rituals and that they didn't want to be associated with paganism by consuming a pagan-made product. And here you are telling us not to buy kosher products because of their association with Jewish rituals. That last part is called irony, I'm still not sure what the first part is called though. 'Xenophobia' maybe.

Not being a massively self-righteous faggot, I am fine with this.

At 10/14/08 06:31 PM, Cornbucket wrote: I can understand the position that rabbis inspecting food is silly and a waste of time or money but I can't understand the position of purposely seeking out non-kosher food since sanitation requirements are way more stringent

There is such a thing as "uselessly strict".
If the FDA doesn't deem a measure worthy of being taken, then I see no reason why a Rabbi would have some special authority to tell everyone how strict food laws really SHOULD be.

At 10/14/08 05:34 PM, poxpower wrote:

I don't know what to call it but you're literally asking us to do the same exact thing.

It costs money to do something that is useless. Why shouldn't I boycott such a measure? They don't drink wine and grape jews from non-jews because they're superstitious, basically. There's no actual reason to do it.

No matter how you wish I was really evil and anti-semitic, you can't pin anything on me for this. Sorry, accept the facts: you're paying money for something completely stupid that isn't even part of your culture or religion. And you didn't even know about it until today.
You can thank me later.

At 10/14/08 06:46 PM, poxpower wrote: No matter how you wish I was really evil and anti-semitic, you can't pin anything on me for this. Sorry, accept the facts: you're paying money for something completely stupid that isn't even part of your culture or religion. And you didn't even know about it until today.
You can thank me later.

Wait... how about we all eat up the kosher food, so there's not left for any jews? Then they'd all have to eat pork or starve!

Wouldn't that be a better plan for equality? Illegalizing the production of kosher food? I mean, because eventually we WILL illegalize religion, because stupid should be illegal, right?

At 10/14/08 06:46 PM, poxpower wrote: It costs money to do something that is useless. Why shouldn't I boycott such a measure?

Have you actually even determined that you're paying more for Kosher-approved food? So then, how much have they been overcharging you? If a can of Pepsi costs a dollar out of a vending machine now, how many pennies less do you think it would cost you had they not bothered with kosher? Let's say it really did make everything WAY more expensive -- don't you think there would be companies taking advantage of that fact? "We don't bother with kosher so you KNOW you're getting a good value!"

Sorry, accept the facts: you're paying money for something completely stupid that isn't even part of your culture or religion. And you didn't even know about it until today.

Those symbols have been on product packaging for years and years. It looks like you're the one who was oblivious the whole time to what it meant and are only just finding out about it.

You can thank me later.

For saving me an entire penny on my 2 lbs. package of salt? What kind of stingy Jew are you?

At 10/14/08 07:12 PM, Cornbucket wrote:

At 10/14/08 06:46 PM, poxpower wrote: You can thank me later.

For saving me an entire penny on my 2 lbs. package of salt? What kind of stingy Jew are you?

Ohh, exploitable. I lol'd.

At 10/14/08 07:05 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: stupid should be illegal, right?

No, it shouldn't be, cheap labor that can be exploited? Illegal? I'd be in the poor house.

At 10/14/08 07:05 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: because stupid should be illegal, right?

no, just avoided.

At 10/14/08 07:12 PM, Cornbucket wrote:

Have you actually even determined that you're paying more for Kosher-approved food?

There's a rabbi who inspects the place, that's his job.
So wherever the money comes from to pay that guy, that's a wasteful extra.

So then, how much have they been overcharging you?

Probably next to nothing.
So? If you think that's ok, then please send me 1 cent right now so I pray for all your food next year. Hey, only one cent, you'd be stupid to complain, right? FOR A WHOLE YEAR.

Those symbols have been on product packaging for years and years. It looks like you're the one who was oblivious the whole time to what it meant and are only just finding out about it.

Regardless, you still are trying to make me out to be a really bad person because I condemn something jews do, even if it's clearly stupid. You can't deny it: it's stupid.
You're scrambling to find as many reasons as possible as why it's not THAT BAD, but you can't escape from admitting it: it is stupid.

At 10/14/08 07:21 PM, poxpower wrote: There's a rabbi who inspects the place, that's his job.
So wherever the money comes from to pay that guy, that's a wasteful extra.

Cry me a river.

No, really, cry me a river. We could use the extra water over here in Nevada.

At 10/14/08 07:05 PM, FUNKbrs wrote:

Wouldn't that be a better plan for equality? Illegalizing the production of kosher food? I mean, because eventually we WILL illegalize religion, because stupid should be illegal, right?

Stupid will never be illegal, because the government relies on a steady flow of stupid to keep the political machine well greased. If all of America was super intelligent, then government would be destroyed.