[Avodah] Pat palter

[Shmuel Zajac]

>
> And actually, this applies not only to pas palter/akum, but also to
> *bishul* akum. I've asked this before, but I'll repeat it now: If certain
> foods were prohibited by the legislation of bishul akum, those foods must
> have been mutar prior to that enactment. But how *could* they have been
> allowed? With absolutely zero Jewish involvement in the cooking, how
> confident could they be that a vegetable soup had only kosher ingredients?
> (I specify "vegetable", on the possibility that Basar Shenisalem Min Ha'ayin
> was already forbidden when Bishul Akum became forbidden.)
>

Well, it's the same affluence issue. In a society where most of the
population probably had meat once a week, why would anyone put meat, fish,
dairy or eggs into a plain soup if he didn't have to?

-- Kayza
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