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	<title>Comments on: What the world eats now</title>
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	<description>Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Rabbi Shmuel</title>
		<link>http://jcarrot.org/what-the-world-eats-now/#comment-1557</link>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Shmuel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>kitschy yet though-provoking (Zalman Goldstein, the guy who makes them is a sort of tormented musical genius - his rendiditons of chassidic songs range from the truly cheesy to the truly sublime (and everything in between)

David R is on the money with the complexity involved, but hey it's a good start</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>kitschy yet though-provoking (Zalman Goldstein, the guy who makes them is a sort of tormented musical genius - his rendiditons of chassidic songs range from the truly cheesy to the truly sublime (and everything in between)</p>
<p>David R is on the money with the complexity involved, but hey it&#8217;s a good start</p>
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		<title>By: Carly</title>
		<link>http://jcarrot.org/what-the-world-eats-now/#comment-1515</link>
		<dc:creator>Carly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://jcarrot.org/what-the-world-eats-now/#comment-1515</guid>
		<description>I so want the b'racha gizmo.  It's hilarious and practical.  I love it!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I so want the b&#8217;racha gizmo.  It&#8217;s hilarious and practical.  I love it!</p>
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		<title>By: David Rendsburg</title>
		<link>http://jcarrot.org/what-the-world-eats-now/#comment-1491</link>
		<dc:creator>David Rendsburg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I dont know, I feel it borders on the ridiculous.

The thing is, there are two problems with knowing which blessing to say.  One is the words of the blessing, which this would help for.  The other is knowing what to say on which food, which can get really complicated (there are entire books on the subject, not to mention "Beracha Bees" in Jewish day schools to help students learn).  

For instance, not all fruit is haEtz (take melon, which is grown in the ground and is haAdama).  And, when does something move from haAdama (potatoes, clearly from the ground) to sheHaKol (potato chips, which aren't quite as recognizable as from the ground).  Cereals can be either haAdamah (corn flakes), sheHaKol (corn chex), or Mezonot (cheerios).  And there are Crispix, which (no kidding!) most books will say you need to say two blessings on, Adamah for the corn side and SheHaKol for the rice side (why rice is sheHaKol is just another example!).

You can check out &lt;a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Brachot.html#1a" rel="nofollow"&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; for a long list of foods (and I assure you there are disagreements over some of them).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I dont know, I feel it borders on the ridiculous.</p>
<p>The thing is, there are two problems with knowing which blessing to say.  One is the words of the blessing, which this would help for.  The other is knowing what to say on which food, which can get really complicated (there are entire books on the subject, not to mention &#8220;Beracha Bees&#8221; in Jewish day schools to help students learn).  </p>
<p>For instance, not all fruit is haEtz (take melon, which is grown in the ground and is haAdama).  And, when does something move from haAdama (potatoes, clearly from the ground) to sheHaKol (potato chips, which aren&#8217;t quite as recognizable as from the ground).  Cereals can be either haAdamah (corn flakes), sheHaKol (corn chex), or Mezonot (cheerios).  And there are Crispix, which (no kidding!) most books will say you need to say two blessings on, Adamah for the corn side and SheHaKol for the rice side (why rice is sheHaKol is just another example!).</p>
<p>You can check out <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Brachot.html#1a" rel="nofollow">this link</a> for a long list of foods (and I assure you there are disagreements over some of them).</p>
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		<title>By: Leah Koenig</title>
		<link>http://jcarrot.org/what-the-world-eats-now/#comment-1489</link>
		<dc:creator>Leah Koenig</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://jcarrot.org/what-the-world-eats-now/#comment-1489</guid>
		<description>This is kind of amazing - I actually could use one...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is kind of amazing - I actually could use one&#8230;</p>
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