Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

My product just needs a bit of rubber and a bit of plastic/similar forming. It's pure genius.
I could bodge up a prototype with some gaffa tape, some old knickers and a £1 chopping mat.

The Dragons Den ALWAYS focus on the patent - no patent, no investment.

Mine could be replicated in China in an afternoon for 20p.

With that ingredient list my brain is working overtime trying to guess:D

Sounds like something the erotic version of the A Team May come up with.

GDB2222

vivatifosi wrote: »

As a non Jew I found that really interesting and informative, thanks lir. A couple of questions for the Jewish NPs if I may:

1. The article says 21 per cent of US Jews observe Kosher. Is that similar in the UK? If you don't observe all year, do you still observe for key festivals?

2. Do observant NPs eat Turkey? I was interested in the part where this raised issues for some people as Turkey were not known.

Hope it is ok to ask. Thanks!

1. I don't know what proportion of Jews in this country observe the laws of kashrut. I think there are degrees of punctiliousness, in any case.

2. Yes. There are rules for deciding which animals are kosher, but there are customs as well. For example, giraffes meet the criteria for being kosher, but they are not eaten.

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

As a non Jew I found that really interesting and informative, thanks lir. A couple of questions for the Jewish NPs if I may:

1. The article says 21 per cent of US Jews observe Kosher. Is that similar in the UK? If you don't observe all year, do you still observe for key festivals?

2. Do observant NPs eat Turkey? I was interested in the part where this raised issues for some people as Turkey were not known.

Hope it is ok to ask. Thanks!

1. Depends what you mean by observe eg some people who consider themselves as keeping kosher would eat in a restaurant that serves non-kosher meat, but wouldn't eat the NK meat, others would say that makes the whole restaurant off limits. Plenty people gather for big festivals without feeling the need to eat kosher food, if they don't the rest of the year.

2.Yes. Kosher butchers stock up with turkeys around Xmas time.

bugslet

GDB2222 wrote: »

I have just ordered a washing basket from Amazon. Under £4, including delivery - what must delivery cost on something that large?

More than £4.00. Coll in van from supplier, take to hub, off-load and sort, put on a trunk trailer, off-load at another hub, sort into runs and then deliver to Chez GDB. I have no idea how any of it can be made to work and exactly why I'm not in general haulage.

@lemon jelly ( I think), I've gone mostly vegan since the BP reading. I say mostly because I refuse to be a PITA if I go out for a meal, restaurant or friends home.

neverdespairgirl

Generali wrote: »

Any idea what the rationale is for no mixing of meat and dairy? Is an explanation given or is it simple fear of being on the wrong end of a smiting?

"Thou shalt not boil a calf in its mother's milk" is the Biblical bit. And it got extended, to the point of separate fridges, kitchens, ovens, plates and so forth, if you are really determined about it.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've got a ridiculous amount of quilt covers, in fact I've had to throw some out as they never seem to wear out..... I used to buy quilt sets about once every 3-4 years, yet they last forever. I buy cheapest ones too.

I don't think duvet covers ever wear out - Isaac is currently using one which is marked with name tapes saying "NDG" and the name of the house I was in at boarding school, and it's in perfectly good condition.

The boarding school was terribly daring while I was there, and started to allow us to use our own duvet covers under the regulation, uniform bedspreads.

I've never seen the point of bedspreads, a complete waste of time and effort, to my mind. At school, we had to take them off at night, fold them up, and put them on a chair, then unfold them the next day and make the bed again.

My inability to just do pointless things like that was one reason why boarding school wasn't for me (-:

vivatifosi wrote: »

As a non Jew I found that really interesting and informative, thanks lir. A couple of questions for the Jewish NPs if I may:

1. The article says 21 per cent of US Jews observe Kosher. Is that similar in the UK? If you don't observe all year, do you still observe for key festivals?

2. Do observant NPs eat Turkey? I was interested in the part where this raised issues for some people as Turkey were not known.

Hope it is ok to ask. Thanks!

The degree of Kosher-ness varies - some of OH's very Orthodox relatives won't eat in other of his relatives' houses, even though the latter keep Kosher - they don't think they are careful / religious / rule-bound enough. OH's grandparents wouldn't use the cooking utensils, plates, knives and forks etc in his parents' household, but would heat up meals in the oven and use paper plates instead, and bring their own cutlery, which they washed outside the house.

Then there are people like OH, who are secular, but don't eat pork or seafood, because they grew up thinking of it as dirty and unclean, so don't fancy it.

lostinrates

Also......dh's cousin/ told me that people they know who say they 'keep kosher' have been spotted in various states of transgression in restaurants or parties in their home city. (Not uk).

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Also......dh's cousin/ told me that people they know who say they 'keep kosher' have been spotted in various states of transgression in restaurants or parties in their home city. (Not uk).

OH has relatives who keep Kosher very strictly at home, and only eat in Kosher places in Israel, but apply a different set of rules abroad (-:

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

OH has relatives who keep Kosher very strictly at home, and only eat in Kosher places in Israel, but apply a different set of rules abroad (-:

Cos He don't travel to see you or what? :rotfl:


I think if I were your DH I'd be curious to try pork and shell fish. Wouldn't necessarily plan on liking anything but I'd want to know. But peoe are the same about other foods they aren't familiar with ...uk examples being horse, (a perfectly edible if generaly tough meat) tripe (ok, I 'm funny about tripe but I've had some I've liked when in situations manners obliged me to) offal....(I'm not keen on the idea of lung, but I LOVE liver, its one of my favourite things, sweetbreads are also excellent, kidney is perfectly edible. Heart isn't my favourite at all) or eyeballs.... Yes, well, I feel that one.

neverdespairgirl

He has tried various sorts of pork products, but just isn't a great fan. He'll eat them if he has to, but wouldn't ever choose to. Shellfish he just doesn't want to go anywhere near.