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Do you like kosher seafood salad?
Dr. Dan:
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--- Quote from: Dr. Dan on February 27, 2008, 09:26:09 PM ---shouldn't it be illegal to even eat imitation crab since it mimicks the flavor of a nonkosher animal? What do you say my fellow observant Jews?
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No. It says imitation, and its up to the seller to call their product what they seem is best ( I guess for business). Just as long as it has the proper Kashrut. - But in the ingredients it says the fish it is made of. I guess that if they would write something like that it wouldn't be able to sell.
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But wouldn't eating a food that mimick the taste of an unkosher animal, like shrimp, cause one to be tempted to eat the actual thing?
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I dont know, not for me at least. But if it tastes good and is tempting, why not just eat the kosher imitation?
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Can you dispute this hipocracy? We certainly aren't allowed to eat foods that are treyf. But why should it be ok to eat something that tastes like it if it wasn't meant for us to eat it anyway? It may tempt us.
Aren't the point of fences meant to keep us from getting to close from danger?
Tina Greco - Melbourne:
Yes I love it :)
Tzvi Ben Roshel1:
--- Quote from: Dr. Dan on February 28, 2008, 05:50:39 AM ---
--- Quote from: Tzvi Ben Roshel on February 27, 2008, 11:06:26 PM ---
--- Quote from: Dr. Dan on February 27, 2008, 10:47:27 PM ---
--- Quote from: Tzvi Ben Roshel on February 27, 2008, 09:30:19 PM ---
--- Quote from: Dr. Dan on February 27, 2008, 09:26:09 PM ---shouldn't it be illegal to even eat imitation crab since it mimicks the flavor of a nonkosher animal? What do you say my fellow observant Jews?
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No. It says imitation, and its up to the seller to call their product what they seem is best ( I guess for business). Just as long as it has the proper Kashrut. - But in the ingredients it says the fish it is made of. I guess that if they would write something like that it wouldn't be able to sell.
--- End quote ---
But wouldn't eating a food that mimick the taste of an unkosher animal, like shrimp, cause one to be tempted to eat the actual thing?
--- End quote ---
I dont know, not for me at least. But if it tastes good and is tempting, why not just eat the kosher imitation?
--- End quote ---
Can you dispute this hipocracy? We certainly aren't allowed to eat foods that are treyf. But why should it be ok to eat something that tastes like it if it wasn't meant for us to eat it anyway? It may tempt us.
Aren't the point of fences meant to keep us from getting to close from danger?
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Besides todays imitation, the Gemmarah lists non kosher food (animals) and also writes what tastes like it. And if the other (similar tasting foods) were allowed then their is no question here. Non-Kosher is not allowed, Kosher is, in this case I dont see what you mean by fencing, if anything you can argue that by having an alternative food that tastes just like the non-kosher food, it is actually easier to keep kosher because you have the substatute available and you can enjoy the same pleasure in a kosher way. BUT anyway once 1 keeps kosher (actaully thats true for allmost all mitzvot), the desire for the impure goes away. Same with Shabb-t once you keep it for some time and are commited, then you get used to it and it doesn't become a test, but a pleasure.
Mishmaat:
I'm not sure about seafood salads, but I know I LOVE sardine salads (and salmon salads). Dice up a tomato and onions, add lemon juice and spicy peppers and eat it along with Passover matzah crackers. It's the best. You'll need some low calorie mints though. That stuff stays on your breath.
Ari:
Very healthy, but yes it stinks. :::D
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