Sarah Gray wrote:
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> Arri London > wrote in :
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> >
> >
> > Goomba38 wrote:
> >>
> >> Janet Wilder wrote:
> >> > Goomba38 wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> She mentioned that some folks "sell" or give the bread and other
> >> >> leavened products away to neighbors and then later "buy" them back
> >> >> again (is that correct?)
> >> >
> >> > Correct. The products could thereby remain in your house but were
> >> > not in your possession. Of course they had to be stored away from
> >> > the passover goods.
> >> >
> >> > Brings back memories.
> >>
> >> I seem to have the memory of her saying they were physically out of
> >> the house. I don't recall if she herself subscribed to this little
> >> deception or just told me about others doing it?
> >
> > Lots of people do that at Passover. A friend of mine who keeps kosher
> > (sort of) used to do that with another friend. It really should be
> > removed from the house but that was too much trouble for her, so she
> > put all the chometz (fermented grain products) into one cupboard, sold
> > it to the mutual friend of ours and then taped the cupboard shut for
> > the duration. The friend who bought the chometz asked me what would
> > happen if he didn't sell it back to her after the holiday. Told him
> > that nothing would happen in the religious sense but she'd be awfully
> > mad at him for a long time.
> >
> > Had her over for lunch one Saturday and served her perfectly kosher
> > chicken soup (real meat) ...and toasted cheese sandwiches! Put the
> > food on the table, there was a pause, we looked at each other and
> > burst out laughing. I do know the rules quite well and just made a
> > mistake. She ate the cheese sandwiches and had the soup for tea later
> > in the afternoon.
> >
>
> Some people are even more strict than that. My mother won't eat food
> cooked in non-kosher kitchens, for example, even if all the ingredients
> are kosher,

Most Orthodox won't either. For my Jewish friends I used paper plates
and plastic cutlery. Pots and pans (that never had anything unkosher in
them) were either koshered by boiling or lined with foil. LOL or else we
ate fish and chips!