"Curly Sue" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 03:14:34 GMT, Sylvia
> > wrote:
>
> > > not stewing a lamb in it's mother's milk
> >
> >Actually, it's not cooking a kid (young goat) in its mother's milk.
> >Refers to a pagan ceremony which of course the Israelites were not
> >supposed to participate in. But the Talmud (fifteen centuries or so of
> >rabbinical commentary) expanded that prohibition to no meat products at
> >the same meal as milk products or vice versa, so those who keep kosher
> >(not all Jews by any means) would not be able to eat a milk-containing
> >mayonnaise on a meat sandwich.
> >
> >OTOH, basic mayo just contains egg, lemon juice, salt, and oil, and I
> >don't remember whether egg is meat, dairy, or pareve (can be eaten with
> >either milk or meat).
>
> Hmm, in theory it should be OK to serve chicken and milk together
> since chickens aren't mammals... but it's not. OTOH, a chicken salad
> sandwich with mayonnaise (or other egg-chicken combos) should be
> forbidden... but it isn't :>

Well, they probably didn't have mayonnaise or chicken salad 3000 years ago
; )