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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Yoplait Yoghurt
Message-ID: <425@eosp1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Dec-83 23:31:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  8 23:31:38 1983
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References:

I consulted an Orthodox Rabbi, Jacob Wasser, who is the Mashgiach
of the Kosher dinning facility at Princeton University, on the
subject of Yoplait Yoghurt, and also examined the yoghurt in a
supermarket.

There are two lines of Yoplait yoghurt: "custard style", and what one
might call standard.  The standard line has O-u certification;
the custard line is marked with a "k".  Among the ingredients listed
for the custard-style line is "gelatin".

Rabbi Wasser stated the following:
 - Because of the gelatin, the custard-style yoghurt is not kosher.
 - When a company makes two similar foods, and only one of them has
   an O-u, there is usually a good reason.

In the United States, most "gelatin" is made from animal substances,
a great deal from pigs.  Most traditional rabbinic authorities regard
such gelatin as either meat, or simply unkosher, depending upon the
source and how it was made.

By the way, if you are myopic and have astigmatism, the "beet extract"
(black letters on a brown background?) sure looks a lot like "beef
extract".  If this were a different net group, it might be interesting
to discuss why the brain might "see" the more common word "beef"
rather than "beet".
				  - Tobias D. Robison
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