I wasn’t looking for a Hechsher, but…
Boruch Hashem, Oriental Trading (my favorite bulk shlock store) is offering chocolate Easter eggs with a big cross on the wrapper - Kosher! This is almost as good as the Ham Glaze mix with O-U certification! Years ago, my mother-in-law was very persistent in getting Oriental Trading to identify all the Kosher items their catalog. Good to see that her hard work has paid off. They actually have a number of products that they claim are Kosher. No, I didn’t inquire whose Hashgacha it is - but if I recall correctly, I think they’ll send you a list of the product certifications, on request.
What products have you seen with valid certification, that you didn’t think we needed kosher?
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No self-respecting missionary would be without kosher easter eggs to lure pious Jewish children… sounds like a “Hebrew Hammer” sequel.
As for other oddly kosher products, I had often wondered why cocktail sauce, the ubiquitous tomato-based shrimp dip, could be found kosher. An old post hints at a great kosher use for it: gefilte fish! Horseradish alone is often too overpowering, but with cocktail sauce you get a similar kick in smoother form.
I agree with you
Please thank your mother for me. I buy regularly from OTC and noticed when they started indicating which products were kosher. I haven’t bought candy from them, but always appreciate KNOWING which products are even an option.
All the best,
CLKL
P.S. I enjoy cocktail sauce on fried eggs, and sometimes put it in the cholent!
Kosher cocktail sauce was obviously produced to drive someone to create kosher mock-shrimp, obviously. Chicken before the egg, and all that. I understand from a Baal Teshuvah friend of mine, that the kosher shrimp cocktail is pretty good.
There is a tasty, kosher, mock shrimp and lobster. It is made by Surimi for the Dynasea brand. I don’t know how close it compares to “real” shrimp and lobster, but we really like it.
Surimi Seafood Produced for Dyna-Sea Group
765 Carroll Pl.
Teaneck, N.J. 07666
(201) 928-0432
Imitation Crabmeat and shrimp
Hashgacha: Kof-K (pareve)
That’s what I was referring to. If I recall correctly, kosher cocktail sauce was around long before the kosher shrimp - so they had to create the shrimp to go with the sauce.
A few years ago I came across a bag of “Santa’s Gold Chocolate Coins” with an inch-wide hechsher from, I think, the rabbinical council of Buenos Aires. I guess everyone needs chocolate gelt!
The chocolate itself is kosher; depending on the season, promotion, etc., they use different wrappings. There are other OTC chocolates that kosher too- same exact size and shape as the Easter egg- just different wrappers.
i see hot dog buns for sale at costco with a kd . who would give a kosher symbol with a dairy for hot dogs?
How about smoky bacon potato chips. COR. I kid you not. Courtesy of Jewlicious:
“If you’re in or near Montreal and crave the uhhhh, smokey goodness of bacon, you can get your fix guilt-free thanks to the kindness of the Lays Potato Chips Company, makers of Lays Smokey Bacon Potato Chips and the Kashruth Council of Canada (administrators of the COR hashgachah)”.
It is VERY IMPORTANT to have a hechscher on those Easter and Christmas candies! How else would be able to enjoy those 95% off post-holiday sales?
Heavily discounted chocolate santas are a highlight of my husband’s mid winter shopping. Where would he be if they weren’t kosher?
dairy hot dog buns or any dairy bread should be considered not kosher. I do not understand why the OU gives a hechsher for thomases english muffins which is also a dairy bread…especially since there are pareve english muffins available which look exactly like thomases
Dairy bread is permitted, as long as it is “differant looking” than regular bread. Thomas’s English Muffins do look differant than regular bread, plus it’s usually eaten for breakfast (Not sure how many people who keep kosher eat meat for breakfast) so I can see why the OU gives the hechser…
As for dairy hot dog buns, I think it’s situations like that that led to the prohibition of dairy bread.
One of the big reliable kashrus companies once was giving their hechsher on dairy hot dog buns, as they look different from normal bread. They soon removed that hechsher when shown why that logic shouldn’t exactly apply in that case.
There is a new Kosher Imitation Crab product in town. Imported from Asia, which is known for high quality. OK Israel certified. The quality is better and its cheaper than the local brand. You have gotta try this. Ask your local market or distributor. Asian Star Brand. Goes great with that Kosher Cocktail sauce.
JeffZ,
Is this brand available for purchase in the NYC area?
Yes, it is just getting out there. Are you a consumer or distributor?
curious consumer
Regarding bread with dairy ingredients, a local rabbi taught me that there are two situations where this is allowed.
One of those is indeed when the bread “looks different” than what bread usually looks like. This is known as that “siman” requirement.
The other situation that same local rabbi (which no one mentioned in this thread) mentioned when dairy bread is permitted is when the bread is only designed to last for ONLY ONE DAY (or better yet, one meal). I have a strong hunch that this is another reason why the OU allows milk to be used in Thomas English Muffins. Each of those individual English muffins is eaten at just one meal.
Oh my! I thought I was the first to discover the irony of
kosher-dairy hot dog buns, however, I can see from earlier posts that I wasn’t. The kosher-dairy buns I saw were made by Heiner’s. The hechsher on it was an outline of the state of West Virginia. Has anyone heard of this one?
People eat parve or dairy veggie hot dogs, it’s not ironic at all.