[Avodah] Ein Mevatlin issur lechatchilah

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:10:05AM +0000, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: That makes sense, but I can't help wondering: why is it that the
: kosher consumer ate Hershey's chocolate without a hechsher all the way
: into the 1980s, but wanted a hechsher on Coca-Cola back in the 1930s?

MAYBE, because the ingrediants were a secret. There are things in Coke
in quantities of more than 1/60 that aren't specified on the ingrediants
list. Hershey's is more up-front.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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