Comments on: YUM!

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:56:04 +0000

Flipper would do that. If you said to him, ‘hey, see that cud over there? Go chew it, and I’ll toss you a couple of fried calamari in lemon sauce with garlic,’ he’d launch his sorry tail fin out of the water and chew it.

By: Grand Muffti

Grand Muffti — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:06:32 +0000

Muffti was wondering how long it would take to drain the blood out of one of those behemoths.

By: Chutzpah

Chutzpah — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:52:07 +0000

I knew that about the dolphin…just wanted to see if Tom was paying attention…

By: froylein

froylein — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:14:03 +0000

Dolphins are mammals, so they’d need to chew the cud and have cloven hooves to (possibly) be kosher.

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:42:06 +0000

Expect a major surge in Israeli tourist trips to Kenya.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:07:22 +0000

but everyone knows that the only way to eat giraffe is with cheese or stewed in milk. so that would make the meal unkosher, and eating giraffe without cheese is simply just not worth it

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:14:59 +0000

You mean…. Flipper is safe?

By: Ephraim

Ephraim — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:29:57 +0000

I’m up for some Bambi myself.

By: Chutzpah

Chutzpah — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:20:40 +0000

oh Tom, you must know by now that the koala doesn’t chew it’s cud and the dolphin doesn’t have fins and scales…haven’t we taught you anything about kashrut after all this time?

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:23 +0000

What’s next– the koala bear? The dolphin?

By: shaul

shaul — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:48:22 +0000

Rav Mahpud is one of the most machmir kashruyot. It is most respected among sefaradim, and respected by ashkenazi haredim as well. I would not be surprised that they start growing them for meat, specially because of such long neck and tail, them being the best meat for cholent.

By: Long Beach Chasid

Long Beach Chasid — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:02:17 +0000

The OU had a seminar in La recently that discussed many kosher topics, among them being Giraffe. They said that it is kosher, so this is nothing new.

Reasons why it isnt all the rage in the fancy NYC Kosher restaurants?

Some might think because of its long neck we wouldn’t know where to shecht it.

Others would say that its an aggressive animal (which they are despite what the cute little zoo makes you think) that would be difficult to subdue to be able to slaughter it in a kosher way.

The Real Reason (at least that Orthodox Union gives) Dun Dun Dun.

Its about $25,000 to purchase a giraffe and if it is shechted and checked and deemed to be unkosher because of lung defects etc., someone would be out of a lot of money.