Two things I had forgotten

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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

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

I have never had gefilte fish! I would like to try it one day.

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

I thought it was Scandinavians who ate gefilte fish?

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

Well, we have to import them all the way from Heaven. Through Hell. You wouldn't believe the duties on that ... ;-)

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

Seriously? Kosher food is quite reasonably priced in the United States. Perhaps it's due to the UK not having quite as large a population of kosher-keeping Jews as the US? Volume means price goes down, generally.

One of the supermarket chains near where I grew up, Weis Markets, is owned by a Jewish family and they have an extensive kosher selection. While I'm not keen on gefilte fish, we always bought kosher matzo and kosher prepared potato pancakes and similar.

[eliskimo.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I don't find kosher food all that different in price than "regular" food here in Ontario (Canada). Must be a British thing.

Of course, we do have a relatively high Jewish population plus a fair number of people (like me) who aren't Jewish/don't keep kosher, but just like kosher food. I think the same is true with Hallal food. A know a LOT of non-Muslims who shop at the hallal delis.