Pesach is icumen up

[lethargic_man]

Bah, ran out of חמץ biscuits too soon, and had a slight job (well, three shops) finding somewhere that was still selling food-of-the-gods, a.k.a. Rakusens flapjack. (Well, I, for one, find it more Moroccan moreish than chocolate.) I was amused, however, to hear one of the employees of Kosher Kingdom using his walkie-talkie to round up people for מנחה.

Meanwhile, when I pointed out to my brother (not the Modern Orthodox one) the ruling of the Masorti rabbinate in Israel on the subject of קיטניות, he replied, "actually last year i ate rice on 1 of the 8 days (cos i'm 1/8 sephardic)." :o)

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Sephardi

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

I would actually also like to eat kitniyot and rice but I don't really want to explain to Hayley what my real background is. She is so machmir about food anyway. When I move with snjstar together I do what I like.

Chaim was once talking about the custom kept by the Asknazi to avoid kitniyot and rice and other things but it is not necessary. We know very well what it is and the industry is not putting anything else in.

[troo.livejournal.com]

My family is mostly Ashkenazi[*], but we still eat rice etc. during Passover, though mostly because we're not strict enough to bother with not eating kitniyot.
This did get me highly annoyed at a religious zionist settler kid I was stationed with when I was in the army, as he had the nerve to suggest that I shouldn't be eating my rice crackers.
Considering I couldn't eat much of the food at the mess due to being vegetarian, and had even fewer choice during Passover (meat replacement schnitzel was hametz), I think I was right.
He did keep out of my way during the rest of Passover - partly to not see me eat the rice crackers, and partly to avoid me yelling at him for daring to suggest I can't eat them (which I would if he would have even looked at me skewed).

[*] the part that isn't Ashkenazi isn't jewish so it doesn't count.

[snjstar.livejournal.com]

I'm Ashzenazi and wouldn't feel right eating Kitnyot over Pesach.

not chametz

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

Kitniyot, rice, corn and seeds like sunflower seeds are not chametz. The only thing we shall not eat is any produced with the five grains except it is turned into Matza. The Ashkenazi just made this silly custom with the kitniyot etc. because they couldn't see the difference. The Sephardi check every rice corn and kitniyot. It is not necessary nowadays as we know it is already checked by the industry. Someone who is for example allergic to certain grains which is often the case with wheat could sue the industrie if they put it into rice or kitniyot or whatever and sell it as rice and kitniyot only.
Chaim (I mean one of the Rabbis in my Shul) said the Ashkenazi prohibition only remained a custom which you can keep or leave.

Bkosher not kosher lePesach

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

Bkosher is not kosher lePesach. They still sell biscuits and the small Tesco also sells normal kosher biscuits. If you go to Paul later you could drop buy and buy some.

Re: Bkosher not kosher lePesach

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Nor is Yarden. It's only Kosher Kingdom where they gave me a funny look when I asked if they still had חמץ biscuits.