Comments on: Kosher, Yes. Jewlicious? No!

By: shakti

shakti — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:53:14 +0000

Pork-belly futures are on the rise! As for the chips, “Betcha’ can’t eat just one…!”

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 04:02:18 +0000

Hey, if it’s kashrus, it’s kashrus! we can eat it!

By: Ben-David

Ben-David — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:16:09 +0000

Tofu is disgusting. It is basically edible plastic.

Soy sauce and miso only taste good because of the yeast and salt.

G-d made soybeans to fatten cattle with, for delicious steaks. People are not supposed to eat soybeans.

Ben-David

By: Ephraim

Ephraim — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 19:49:16 +0000

If you want to enjoy soy, you should eat it in its natural state as it was intended to be eaten: as tofu, miso, soy sauce, etc. East Asia has spent the last 3,000 years developing an entire cuisine based on the soybean, and properly enjoyed in its natural setting and as it is intended to be eaten, it is delicious.

The reason most soy products available in the US are so disgusting is because they take soy beans and try to make them taste like someting they aren’t. Tofu is not beef or chicken, and the results of trying to pound that square peg into the round hole are almost unifomly dreadful. It is all ersatz food.

It is difficult to find it here, but fresh, natural tofu properly prepared is absolutely delicious.

By: Ben-David

Ben-David — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:58:23 +0000

I agree with ck (as a former cheeseburger lover): the best kosher cheeseburger is made with soy meat and dairy cheese.

The soy cheese is disgusting – we stopped going to a local pizzeria because we could clearly taste the difference, even with spicy sauce.

Muffti is half-right about soy products. The soy weiners my kids love taste like nothing human beings should eat. But the ground
“beef” and other products are not bad at all.

By: ck

ck — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 00:44:46 +0000

I just really dislike junk food. Lays also offers Ketchup and chicken flavored potato chips. Eating that shit is wrong because it’s crap. I laugh at how people try to infer things about one’s religious orientation from this. BTW, Veggie burgers with cheese, soy or otherwise, are awesome.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:54:55 +0000

The dislike of products like these is also typical of older generations. My father hates the idea of fake bacon and a rabbi whose shiur I go to hates the idea of potato bread for Pesach. It’s really just people resisting innovation rather than anything inherently halachic — the idea of “it violates the spirit of the halacha” is just a smoke screen.

The truth is, there isn’t really such a thing as “the spirit of halacha.” Either you follow the halacha or you don’t. Sure, there’s a concept of not being disgusting regarding things that are allowed (I can’t think of the Hebrew phrase at the moment), but it isn’t quite the same idea. And marit ayin is a much more intricate concept than people realize.

By: T_M

T_M — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:01:13 +0000

You predicted it in the Ayelet Waldman post. You are a certifiable genius, Esther.

Either that, or you might have a gift for fortune telling.

By: Esther

Esther — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:58:59 +0000

I was reluctant to Google such a thing from my current undisclosed yeshiva-oriented location. I do believe I predicted this particular search term at some point, although I don’t think I have a record of the IM conversation that would prove it…

You’ll just have to face it: Google’s crushin’ on Jewlicious. Because of the aforementioned state of being super fantastic.

By: T_M

T_M — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:58:13 +0000

#2 for Jewish blog?!

There’s room for improvement, ck, lots of room…