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Doctor Gefilte, stat!

by Sarah Rose · April 17th, 2007

Kosher, On The Web, Rant!, Recipes

Making your own gefilte fish can be a smelly, life threatening business. But Tammy, the all-powerful hostess, gives us tips on how to make the jarred spammy stuff taste like homemade.

She also lights into Manaschewitz Everything Matzos for the following hechsher:

“Who the hell makes matzo that you can’t eat on Passover? How incredibly deceptive of Manischewitz! Do they really think anyone eats matzo by choice?”

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4 Responses to “Doctor Gefilte, stat!”

avtherav Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 11:05 am
For one, passover certification costs much more, and for those people who like to have a box of matza around so that they dont have to scrounge around for a second complete loaf of bread to complete the “two loaves” for shabbat it can sometimes be useful.
feygele Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
I recently had the same “what the heck” conversation, and the best insight that came out of it was this:

“[Not kosher l’Pesach matzah] is in exactly the same category as caffeine-free diet coke, or strippers wearing pasties: you’ve removed all of the point, so why do you even bother?”
Tammy Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Avtherav — it has nothing to do with a cheap hechsher — it contains MALT & thus will never be kosher l’Pesach unless we undo centuries of rabbinic tradition.
Magpie Ima Says:
April 18th, 2007 at 11:45 am
For what it’s worth, gefilte fish is not at all hard to make and homemade tastes a hundred times better. I only use ocean fish since I’ve always suspected Great Lakes fish to be at least mildly radioactive. And then I read the tapeworm thing…….eeeewww. If interested, you can read about my latest round of gefilte fish making here:
http://magpieeats.blogspot.com.....-fish.html