Sarah Gray wrote:
>
> Arri London > wrote in :
> >>
> >> 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!
> >
>
> My mom is Orthodox, I guess I should have specified

LOL that was my assumption in any case. Although many people in all the
other branches of Judaism do keep fairly strict kashrut.

> She is a convert, and when we are at her parent's or sisters' houses, we
> eat off paper and plastic (or glass, at my grandmother's, who has a
> set...glass is not considered "permeable" by halacha, so you don't need
> to kasher it in between.).


For some reason I didn't know that. I did have glass plates and bowls
etc but they always had had pork etc in/on them, so weren't considered
kosher by *me*.

>I remember sneaking non-kosher cookies at
> their houses more than once when I was younger. It seemed exotic or
> something...

LOL but of course it would! And did you enjoy them?