<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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.)<br>
</blockquote></div><br>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?<br>
<br>-- Kayza<br></div>