The Most Ridiculous KLP Items Out There

[rockycat]

We can all use a little humor right about now. The problem is, this is real. Have you seen anything that can beat this?

http://www.frumsatire.net/2013/03/21/...

[flo220]

I just saw Kosher for Pesach Challah Bags today.

[tamarw]

My friend saw this for sale at her MA Stop & Shop:

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...

[EmpireState]

That reminds me of a nonkosher restaurant near me that has a sign "we are open for Passover"

[noya]

A local pizzaria posted in huge letters: "matza pizza for passover" and in small letters "not kosher for passover"

[barryg]

That at least makes sense for reform and conservative Jews that take the holiday a little more casually... challah and babka, not so much.

[cheesecake17]

Someone mentioned how they don't eat bread on Passover, only matza. They then went on to describe the most fabulous recipe for matza pizza- topped with sausage and pepperoni.

[zsero]

Lots of people keep pesach but not kashrut.

[L2k]

We always have one BBQ night during Passover. Ribs without the cornbread aren't quite the same, but it'll do!

[avitrek]

You've never heard of ham and cheese on matza? Or a BLT matza sandwich?

In college, I had someone who was going out to a bar on Friday night ask me what he should order since it was Passover. I thought about it for a second and suggested wine since he didn't care about stam yeinam and I couldn't think of another alcohol readily available at a bar that wouldn't have grain in it.

[cheesecake17]

I've heard of it. Just thought it was kind of funny how this guy went thru all kinds of trouble to get matza, make his pizza, and go on and on about pesach.

[bagelman01]

The Raabs (a nice Jewish family that founded S&S) must be turning over in their graves. I was in my local S&S this morning to pick up some extra soda and they had lots of Challah and babka on display, right next to a sign stating that the bakery would not be under KVH supervision from 3/24 until after the Passover holiday.

[L2k]

Rabb, not Raab (although Raab *does* sound more Jewish). I used to work with members of the family

[bagelman01]

typo, my fingers don't work that well on a touchscreen. My father bought the Bradlees chain from them in 1962 and I got to know them

[L2k]

Then we need to talk because your mishpacha may owe me some money for my last week working there! :)

[CloggieGirl]

KLP cigarettes: http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jew...

[zsero]

Hardly ridiculous. Some cigarettes have actual chametz, and since many people do smoke despite the danger, it's important to enable them to do so lawfully. Without this, either they'll be going through withdrawal on Pesach, which is not pleasant, or they'll break the law and smoke the chametz ones.

[queenscook]

Are cigarettes r'oi l'achilat kelev? I wouldn't think so. If not, chametz or not, there's no need for them to be KFP.

[zsero]

You're not just possessing it, you're putting it your mouth. Besides, glue is fit for a dog's consumption.

[queenscook]

Putting it in your mouth is not eating it.

As for the glue, no rabbi I would ask shailot of would agree with you on that score. The Rav himself said it about toothpaste, which would arguably be far "tastier" than glue; kal v'chomer for glue and cigarettes.

[zsero]

So who says the Rav was right? Since when does the Badatz Bet Yosef have to agree with him?

[helou]

In my neighborhood the zroah. shankbone, is being sold at various Kosher stores for:

$2.50 at the kosher butcher for a bone stripped of absolutely any meat (I know you don't need meat on it, but you really have to see it),

$1.50 raw or $2.50 roasted at a place that's a deli but also sells raw meat (they also sell a roasted egg for 50 cents)

And my very favorite, $4.50 at the Shop-Rite Kosher Experience.

Am I missing somethng? I am not at all one of those people who make their own mayonnaise and ketchup - I gladly pay for some convenience, but this seems crazy to me.

[zsero]

What's the objection to this? It's a useful product, and to many people worth the small price. It's a lot less silly than paying for plain water -- and a lot cheaper. Is your objection just to their having bothered with a hashgacha?!

[helou]

My objections is that this is price gouging of Jews by Jews. I thing they should give stripped down bones away for free. It's not the hashgacha that bothers me.
You can buy a pack of chicken wings or necks and use one. Or buy a turkey wing and use the rest of the meat for cooking.

[zsero]

Um, excuse me, what have bones got to do with this? We're not talking about bones, we're talking about a large jar of salt water for a mere 99p. That's not price gouging, it's a reasonable price for those who choose to buy it.

But if you want to talk about bones, that's not price gouging either. As you point out, nobody is forced to buy it, there are many many other options, so how can it be price gouging?

[SoCal Mother]

I was going to say that "soy" sauce until I saw where you were going with this...

[ferret]

Yes, but is it the original recipe?

[AdinaA]

Please tell me that this is photoshopped.

[DeisCane]

No. I have seen it elsewhere. Shanda.

[shoelace]

1- i dont have to even click on the link to see what it is, bc its been hot all over

2- i saw salt water sold on main street last year in plastic deli containers

[kosherGlutenFree]

Although this is not KFP, it is FOR preparing for Passover so thought it fit in the topic.

saw at the bookstore a package of 10 pieces of double wrapped chometz for bedikas chamatz!! For $2.50.

I thought I was the only one without chometz in the house (you have to OWN chometz for bedikas chamatz which I normally never have in my house--I get around this by saving something from shalach manot).

I tried to think of who would need this and could only think of 1) yeshivah bacherim (but it must be easy for them to get a slice of bread) and 2) someone so paranoid that they need it to be double wrapped so they don't have to worry it will spill.

But this is wrapped in plastic and at the community fire we are not suppose to burn our chometz that is in plastic.

[Miri1]

Did anyone read the comments to the saltwater picture? A hechsher on cigarettes? Really? Oy.

I saw KLP frozen bread slices. They looked pretty nasty to me.

[kosherfoodie1226]

If they are the Israeli tapioca bread , they are not nasty in the least. They are unbelievable. If someone gave it to you hot out of a toaster and told you that it was toast, you would not know that it was pesachdik. It is that good.

[cresyd]

The Israeli tapioca bread is better than expected - but personally I can't imagine someone not figuring out that something is different.

That being said, compared to a number of KFP items abroad, it's a nice surprise.

[Miri1]

if I see the 'bread' again, I will give it a try.

[Miri1]

I saw an ad for matzah pizza in a nonkosher pizza psce. Huge billbard on Lincoln Blvd in Marina Del Rey.

And a KLP falafel mix. I think it was Savion. Or maybe Sreits. Got a laugh out of that one.

[bagelman01]

Savion makes it........................

It's all about kitniyot.
My ex-MIL escaped germany in 1939 and made it to Palestine. She lived in the deprivation of the Yishuv and young Medinat Israel until coming to US in about 1953 (ex-FIL's parents had survived and made it to US and then found son and DIL). She adopted the eating customs of the Sephardim while growing up, especially as there were food shortages and the home where she was taken in had a Sephard male head of household.
So even after being in the US more than 55 years and living in a Ashkenaz community, she still makes Falafel on Pesach (albeit from scratch) and serves them on salad as a typical lunch meal during chol hamoed. The first time I saw this I was surprised, after all she and my ex-FIL were from Germany, but they explained their adopted traditions.
My ex followed my traditions in our home, but ate whatever her mother served in theirs.

[zsero]

There are many Israeli products that are KLP only for those who eat kitniyot. The majority of kosher-keeping people in Israel are Sefardi, after all. The thing is, apparently in the 19th century Israeli Sefardim did not eat kitniyot, so I don't know when this changed, or why.

[cheesecake17]

MDR. WISH I could be there right now!!!!!