Arri London > wrote in :

>
>
> 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?
>

Yeah, but I felt guilty about it... at least at the time