[Avodah] Girl Scout cookies

[Michael Makovi]

> My wife recently brought home a few boxes of Girl Scout cookies.
>  They're labeled OU Dairy, but when you read the list of ingredients the
>  only dairy ingredient (whey) is third on the list headed by "contains
>  less than 2% of:".  Is one permitted to eat these cookies after eating
>  meat?  If not, why not?

Ahh, 1/60 ought to...? But they must be milk equipment, and if the
cookies are, the OU marks milk-equipment as mamash milchig.

I'd call the OU and ask them the deal. Even when they label a certain
way, on the phone they'll tell you the real story. My mother and I
were buying eggs in the secular supermarket, and we saw two kinds of
eggs of the same brand, one white and the other brown. The white ones
were marked OU, the brown ones not. We bought the white ones, but
wondered why the brown ones wouldn't be kosher - surely something must
be unkosher about them, for why else would the OU mark their white
same-brand neighbors; but what could be unkosher about a stam egg? She
called up the OU, and they said that sometimes, the brown pigment of
the shell penetrates the egg and makes what looks like a blood spot.
After too many people called complaining about bloody kosher eggs, the
OU decided it wasn't worth it to mark the brown ones as kosher, so
they pulled the certification, but they'll still as kosher as ever.

Mikha'el Makovi