September 23, 2004

Business Opportunity

Posted by Kieran

For various reasons we needed to locate some Kosher dairy products today, which proved to be more difficult on short notice than I imagined. However, if anyone wants to set up a shop selling such things, it’s obvious that it should be called “Jews for Cheeses.”

Posted on September 23, 2004 04:33 AM UTC
Comments

Badabing. I’ll be here all week.

Posted by me2i81 · September 23, 2004 04:43 AM

Perhaps not such a huge tribute, but the entirety of that post goes immediately into ye olde .signature file. Thanks, Kieran.

Posted by Steve Laniel · September 23, 2004 04:43 AM

Not to drizzle on the comedy parade, but shouldn’t it be “Cheeses for Jews”?

By the way, if this stuff is for you, make sure to ready yourself for the, um, digestive consequences of eating kosher cheese.

Posted by J. Ellenberg · September 23, 2004 05:26 AM

Google search.

Also.

Posted by KCinDC · September 23, 2004 05:43 AM

I vaguely remember having once purchased “kosher dill pickles” in the local Safeway in the hope it would be low in or free of “chemical” ingredients (or actually rather more strong on the “taste” side as a consequence), but was disappointed. Apparently the commercial interpretation of both “kosher” and “halal” leaves something to be desired, and I’m left to reading labels and tasting the product.

Posted by cm · September 23, 2004 06:23 AM

Not to drizzle on the comedy parade, but shouldn’t it be “Cheeses for Jews”?

No, because while they sell the Cheese for Jews, they are the Jews for Cheeses.

Posted by Kieran Healy · September 23, 2004 07:32 AM

Cheese is Christ!

Posted by bad Jim · September 23, 2004 07:35 AM

Chees is Kraft

Posted by anthony · September 23, 2004 10:07 AM

Blessed are the cheesemakers.

Posted by JO'N · September 23, 2004 01:41 PM

Not cheese-related, I’m afraid, but why isn’t there a shop called Jonie Loves Tschochkes? Another business opportunity surely.

Posted by duncan · September 23, 2004 02:28 PM

There is a Joanie Loves Tchotchkes in this gaming business directory. Most of the other search results are about a film.

Posted by KCinDC · September 23, 2004 02:42 PM

Now remember, “pun” spelled backwards is N.U.P., and that will be e-nup outta you.

Posted by Mark Adams · September 23, 2004 04:54 PM

Now remember, “pun” spelled backwards is N.U.P., and that will be e-nup outta you.

Posted by Mark Adams · September 23, 2004 04:55 PM

So I interrupted a nice cheese thread, mis-spelled Joanie, naively entered my email address when asked to do so, and was all wrong in the first place. Well done me.

Posted by duncan · September 23, 2004 05:54 PM

I disagree. Not Jews for Cheeses. It should be Cheeses of Nazareth!

Posted by Dave Goodman · September 23, 2004 07:35 PM

Do you think Ruben is the Treasure of Sierra’s Madre?

Posted by Wolfie · September 23, 2004 09:52 PM

Why would kosher cheese have digestive consequences? Is there something inherently trayf about cheese? That is, wouldn’t almost any cheese, if made using proper equipment, etc., be kosher?

(I exclude cheese made from lobster milk or something)

Posted by Bernard Yomtov · September 23, 2004 10:46 PM
Rennet is a derivative of a calf’s stomach lining, and therefore, upon introduction into the cheese culture, creates a basar v’chalav condition. In other words, thou shalt not seethe the milk in the stomach of the calf.

The only kosher cheeses made with “rennet” are made using rennet that comes from GMO bacterial culture.

Posted by A New York City High School Math Teacher · September 23, 2004 11:12 PM

NYC teacher,

Thanks. I didn’t know that.

Posted by Bernard Yomtov · September 24, 2004 04:31 PM

This is not a cheese shop. And no dancing.

Posted by Laszlo Panaflex · September 25, 2004 03:46 AM
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