[Avodah] Selling whiskey/bourbon

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:17:02AM +0000, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: If I'm understanding RMB correctly, yes they were "makpid on glatt",
: but that hakpada was not for religious/kashrus reasons (but to be free of
: mafia infiltration). Thus it is not a useful example for the discussion.

"They" the consumer, yes. The Hungarians who set up the shlacht-hoizen
brought glatt with them from their towns in Hungary. This then became
identfied in the American mind with being mafia-free, and thus more
reliable.

I ws bringing evidence, though, that there were large swaths of Eastern
Europe where glatt kosher was observed by entire towns. (Basically, by
repeating how I deduced that.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha