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<font size=3>At 01:18 PM 3/28/2013, R. Akiva Miller wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I have long since stopped
laughing at previous generations who thought that "everything was
kosher". Maybe they were right.</font></blockquote><br>
Did they really *think* that everything was kosher and investigate or
simply use things without looking into the kashrus of what they were
using? Did they rely upon Rav Alle, "Alle essen
dos" and not go any further? My understanding is that food
technology today is much more complicated than it was in the past,
but this does not mean that there were no problems in the past.<br><br>
Years ago a rebbitzen told me that only the chocolate flavor of a certain
brand of pudding was kosher, despite the fact that the other
flavors manufactured by this company also had a K on it. This
seemed strange to me, so I wrote to the company. They sent me
information about the rabbi who was behind the K. This rabbi's
supervisions were not considered reliable by most observant Jews. I
wrote to him and asked him detailed questions about the kashrus of the
puddings he supervised. His reply was, "All of the flavors may
be considered acceptable." He supplied no specifics regarding
his basis for this statement and did not answer one of my
questions. Based on this, I decided that the rebbitzen really did
not have any basis for saying the only the chocolate flavor was OK.
Based on what I had heard about this rabbi's supervisions, I did
not use any of these puddings. <br><br>
YL <br><br>
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