rotor wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 7:10 pm
MaduroBU wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 6:29 pm
It's a huge error to assume that someone keeps kosher because they're Jewish. A Jewish friend turned me on to chocolate with bacon in it (which is amazing).
Very true. My grandmother kept a kosher house for my grandfather but she and the rest of us were spoiled and had non-kosher as well as kosher foods. Grandma kept three sets of dishes in order to do this. And during WWII all of the bacon grease was saved for the war effort. Not sure what the military did with it but we did our share.
Interestingly enough, where I live the only place to really get kosher products were at a Lebanese grocery. Not meat but packaged kosher foods.
Slightly off topic but the bacon grease was stabilized, filtered, then used as a machining lube. I worked in a machine shop in Utah that had pallets of the stuff and we used for drilling, milling and turning everything from aluminum, to stainless, and high carbon steels.