Two things I had forgotten

[fpb]

1) How much I like gefilte fish.
2) What scary awful prices kosher foods cost. I guess that is one thing that stokes the legend of Jewish wealth - if they can afford to pay four pounds for a bag of gefilte fish or two or three for a few slices of salt beef, they MUST be well off!

Comments

[fpb.livejournal.com]

You are probably right. I can tell you that, in the Sainsbury's supermarket chain, prepared meat such as salt beef costs in the range of the most expensive kinds of non-kosher luxury prepared meat, namely bresaola (part-dried spiced beef) and Parma ham, namely more than two pounds per hundred gram. I don't know how that translates into American measures, but it's a lot, and I can't imagine a modestly off Jewish family paying that much on food without either having to live on a stringent diet, or going without a lot of other things.

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

Kosher food is less expensive where I live (New York state), but I also know many observant Jews who are vegetarian or semi-vegetarian (eating meat or fish only on the Sabbath) just to reduce the headache of keeping kosher. I'd imagine that would be even more appealing where meat is expensive.