Kosher food truck dropped the kosher because most of its customers weren't

By adamg on Mon, 08/03/2015 - 6:30pm

The Forward explains why the Chubby Chickpea decided to stop spending the money for kosher certification.

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Kosher repudiation most appropriate during "Stewart" farewell

By O-FISH-L
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 6:48pm

“As a Jewish-owned-and-operated company, we felt that becoming kosher fit our ethos and would better serve our customers,” he said in an email. “After almost two years under kosher supervision, we compiled enough data to understand that although our customers certainly include many practicing and non-practicing members of the Jewish community, by and large our base does not require kosher food.”

This is most appropriate in the same week that the media celebrates someone they call "Jon Stewart" who ran from his true name (Leibowitz) while demanding truth from Republicans. The secret meetings with and phone calls from Obama and his ilk were a special touch. They must be also be celebrating at our embassy in Japan where Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, who couldn't string a coherent sentence together as a candidate for U.S. Senate, now serves as ambassador, claiming she never really took the Schlossberg name, although forgot to ask the media to stop using it until filing campaign papers. Love the Dems!

There you go again

By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 6:48pm

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Why do you hate rational capitalism so much?

uh.

By tape
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 7:05pm

what?

?????????

By FlyingToaster
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 8:26pm

Dude, that word salad rivals Snowbilly Snooki's.

Check your meds. Check your alcohol bottles. Something is definitely not working to spec at Chez Fish-L.

Sorry the fastball blew by you

By O-FISH-L
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 1:26am

Adam posted about a Jewish business dropping some of its Jewish identity. The same week that the "mainstream" media celebrates a guy who ran from his Jewish identity long ago. Not surprised you don't see the correlation. Gruber wasn't too far off.

There would have to be an

By MattL
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 6:07am

There would have to be an actual correlation in order for someone to see one.

oh boy

By Michael
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 8:40am

"You're seeing a whole TEAM of psychiatrists, aren't you?" - Terence Mann, Field of Dreams

Jews fascinate you, don't they?

By adamg
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 9:20pm

Must be such a burden on you, knowing we still exist.

Re: Jews fascinate you, don't they?

By O-FISH-L
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 11:51pm

Jewish anti-Semitism was once considered a bizarre irrelevance. It was touched upon gingerly in the groundbreaking 1947 film, Gentleman’s Agreement, but was long ignored as a marginal psychological disorder by the organized Jewish community. Modern Zionists expected that the creation of Israel would put an end to any neurotic self-abasement that had afflicted Diaspora communities; that it would end Jewish spiritual insecurity and identity issues as well as physical insecurity. Instead, however, the growth of a powerful Israeli state has enabled the most rabidly anti-Semitic Jews to thrive.

I'm mostly fascinated by the Jews who hate themselves. A sort of Stockholm Syndrome which is always interesting. With 70-80% of Jews voting for Obama while he hands Iran nuclear weapons to "wipe Israel off the map" and kicks Benjamin Netanyahu out the Dumpster door of the White House, it's hard to look away. Keep celebrating "Jon Stewart" though. A real voice for truth, his own name notwithstanding.

Um

By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 11:28pm

With 70-80% of Jews voting for Obama while he hands Iran nuclear weapons to "wipe Israel off the map" and kicks Benjamin Netanyahu out the Dumpster door of the White House

Wut?

Re: Um

By O-FISH-L
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 11:37pm

"There is no humiliation exercise that the Americans did not try on the prime minister and his entourage," Israel's Maariv newspaper reported. "Bibi received in the (Obama) White House the treatment reserved for the president of Equatorial Guinea."

Somehow I think the president of Equatorial Guinea would be treated much better.

Jersey Shore

By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 11:58pm

I'm sure they have opinions about who has been dissed and how and why.

Doesn't make it important or real.

Important and useful information!

Do you know how many other

By anon
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 7:15am

Do you know how many other celebrities change their name (or people in general)? Celebrities especially do it because they may have been born with a hard-to-pronounce or -spell name, or they think a simple alias sounds more glamorous or has a better ring to it. It's not all "self-loathing." Here are 13 examples.

Not to mention LaDonna Adrian Gaines

By Ron Newman
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 10:25am

If you don't know who that is .... Link

Don't forget Screen Actors'

By R Hookup
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 11:23am

Don't forget Screen Actors' Guild name conflicts.

that's not why he dropped his last name

By anon
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 11:01am

It was because of issues with his largely estranged father.

As opposed to Christians, who would never do this

By adamg
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 11:12am

Right, Archibald Leach and Marion Robert Morrison, or, well, any of the hundreds of people on this list.

But what's your real name? Why are you hiding behind a pseudonym?

My point was

By anon
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 2:22pm

that it was not because he was self-hating, like the other poster was suggesting, but it was for family reasons, which as you point out, is universal.
Sorry for the confusion.

I just replied again as anon since I often forget to log in

By Mia
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 2:28pm

But to be clear, I was responding to this statement:

"I'm mostly fascinated by the Jews who hate themselves."

My reply was to show that's NOT why Stewart changed his name. It had nothing to do with religion, but in response to a difficult situation, which yes, is universal and is something I can personally relate to.

I was NOT suggesting that it was unique to those who are Jewish. I am sorry for the confusion.

Why post using dog whistle techniques

By anon
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 11:25am

When you can just go full loon? I appreciate your forthrightness and efficiency.

Time to ban this one, Adam.

By jmeltzer
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 12:10am

Really.

Seriously.

By erik g
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 8:22am

I'll even give him the benefit of the doubt, and assume that this is some sort of slowly-encroaching mental illness, rather than intentional trolling, but every single time he steps into a thread, it's to drop a turd in the punchbowl and then feign indignance when people call him out for his racist/sexist/antisemitic/inane non-sequitur.

No

By John Costello
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 8:25am

Let's stop with the calling to ban here. I enjoy Fishy's batshite musings. It reminds me that the world and Greater Boston is filled with tinfoilers and Herald readers who need to let off some steam. At the same time we can monitor them as some kind of Defcon threat board to see how the crazies are acting.

If you want Groupthink, join a cult.

Yes

By cybah
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 8:50am

When I worked for a web personals company (gay web personals.. I can't say the name here), we'd have some very raunchy ads. Lots of people looking for unprotected sex or wanting an STD (yes really there are people out there who want HIV).

While we found many of these ads really offensive, we left them alone. We just felt that it's better to keep them on there so people know who they are and we can monitor them. If we nuke the account, we couldn't keep track of them and they'd just create a new account anyways.

Kinda like the old phrase "keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer"

Same principal can be applied here to Fishy (or to anyone)

I'm pretty sure he's really a

By MattL
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 9:10am

I'm pretty sure he's really a left wing plant. I mean, no one would intentionally make themselves and their side seem this unhinged, right?

you'd like to think that...

By Malcolm Tucker
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 11:19am

...but some of my relatives buy into, and regurgitate, much of the same drivel that Fishy excretes from his warped little brain. They aren't left-wing plants - and, according to them, it's the rest of the world that's gone crazy. Every villain is the hero of his own story, you know?

Enjoy?

By lbb
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 4:47pm

The guy shows every sign of being genuinely mentally ill. That's not something for you to sit back and be entertained by.

Aah, I get it.

By anon
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 7:09am

Fish is just sticking up for Bibi, who is busily transforming Israel into a pariah state.

There's no need to delve into the wretched details of this transformation process, beyond noting its damage to Bibi's credibility, which is probably on par with Erdogan.

Here's a few items from these cultures to take the edge off the acrid speculation.

From Iran. https://youtu.be/CbjFPOBpHaw

From the Jewish Diaspora. https://youtu.be/axjd0k2RfSc

This last is interesting because, it is a love labor recreating a lost musical form through the living memory of an elderly Roma fiddler, Gheorghe Covaci, "Cioata", who learned his craft when these ensembles still existed.

He would be the overjoyed old fiddler in the middle.

Is there a Boston area news/forum site...

By anon
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 10:25pm

...without all the sport and trolling?

UH coments get too distracted with BS, rather than sharing useful information and raising important issues. It's bad for readers who don't want the sport, and it's bad for people who will fall off the wagon into time-wasting sport themselves.

Reddit /r/boston has too many oblivious college students, who have no idea that they have no idea what they're talking about.

No, alas.

By anon
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 6:40am

Heaven knows, I try. A few seem to be coming up with their own versions.

Bob Leponge posted some great stuff with an x/y graph about solar design types the other day.

http://www.universalhub.com/2015/heat-continue-are...

We also learned he has a pretty good understanding of energy issues.

So you hide behind a screen

By OmShanti
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 10:40pm

So O-Fishy,
you hide behind a screen name to make comments about others?

Now, now..

By Brian Riccio
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 10:48pm

Fish posted this at 6:48PM,obviously frustrated because there was no way Howie was going to fit him in before the show ended and he spent all that time on hold.

What's your true name?

By Felicity
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 8:13am

Jon Stewart must really get up the craw of right-wingers.

By MC Slim JB
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 9:09am

Why else do they obsess about the so-common-it's-laughably-unremarkable notion of a Jewish-American entertainer adopting a stage name, then ascribe it to some imagined self-loathing, when the long history of anti-Semitism in this country is the Occam's Razor explanation? (Also: watch the show for five minutes to figure out how unutterably stupid it is to suggest that Stewart hides or is ashamed of his Jewishness.)

I guess Stewart's ongoing barbs at the hypocrisy, cupidity, bigotry and idiocy of the right in this country must land like a series of kicks to the groin. Or maybe it's the fact that right-wingers seem constitutionally incapable of humor when attempting to satirize political subjects; it must be galling to be so thuddingly unfunny, while liberal comics deliver hilarity at your expense, night in and night out.

What will Fishwrap yammer on about once Stewart goes off the air? Ah, right: his usual tired lineup of Howie-wannabe racist tropes and assorted other bigotries. Maybe he can start concocting flyspeck criticisms to flick at Trevor Noah and Larry Wilmore. (Hint: one's a foreigner, and the other's a blaaaack maaaan.)

Following your thinking (!),

By bibliotequetres...
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 12:08pm

Following your thinking (!), what are you running from that you don't use your birth name when you post?

wow, that's passive aggressive

By anon
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 7:05pm

The last paragraph in the Forward makes a snide comment and links to a really nasty review of the guy's cookbook.

Apparently you're not allowed to write a non-kosher cookbook and have a kosher food truck?

Also, why is it even remotely news that a food truck dropped its certification? If anything this seems like bullying to try and punish them for not paying what amounts to a religious tax.

Newsflash: if your religion has really fussy rules about how their food is prepared, you should offer training and certification, not charge people for it. Religions aren't supposed to be money-makers or extortion rackets.

Really?

By FlyingToaster
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 8:24pm

It's not known as the Kashrut Mafia for nothin'...

Why it's news

By adamg
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 9:22pm

It's not like there's a surfeit of kosher food trucks in the area, so when one drops the certification, it's interesting, at least to me.

If you need a Kosher stop...

By bostonkid_316
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 9:00am

I just discovered Rami's Foodtruck (http://ramisfoodtruckboston.com/) and it's great. I'm not Kosher myself, but I'm always looking for good falafel and they happen to have the certification. I believe they have a brick and mortar shop in Brookline too. Food is really good!

I don't think anyone offers

By anon
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 7:18am

I don't think anyone offers "certification" of anything for free, nor should they. Things like that cost money to do.

I guess this is more

By Dave
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 10:39pm

I guess this is more lucrative, but I liked it better when he was running a restaurant in Canton Center.
Now with the food truck, I can't figure out when he's open @ his Jackson St. location, and he hasn't even put up a Facebook msg. in 4 months.

All things Jewish?

By Markk02474
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 2:35am

I have a couple questions since that's the topic here:

1. What did the US get from Israel in exchange for releasing its spy Johnathan Pollard? Some of our Billions of dollars back, perhaps?

2. Any thoughts on the Jewish hate crime against gays in Jerusalem at pride this past weekend by an ultra orthodox nut job? Is religious extremism and "observance" bad?

No

By adamg
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 7:00am

This isn't the place to talk about Israel, any more than it's the place to talk about Christian mass killers or gay bashers in the US.

Kosher food truck dropped the kosher because most of its customers weren't

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