movies at la casa de mousepod

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Lil' Miss Jew Factchecker here to say yes, vodka is kosher for passover, as is wine, of course. Just can't have any malted hops or fermented barley.

You are my hero. Yup, mom, see My friend Jen "Lil' Miss Jew Factchecker" Sloan said Vodka is kosher for passover. So Jeff and I are going to sit here and drink it instead of this wine. If we put cranberry juice in it, it'll be red!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Lil' Miss Jew Factchecker here to say yes, vodka is kosher for passover, as is wine, of course. Just can't have any malted hops or fermented barley.

Not all wines are Kosher for Passover. Depends on where they get their yeast from (can't be yeast that's grown on bread). Most Kosher wines are Kosher for Passover, but not all.

GC,there may be room for another seat at my parents' Sedar, I'll let you know.

ETA: Oops, missed that you've already found one. Well, if that falls through, let us know.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by mousepod

Oh crap. Thanks, NA. I guess Passover might preclude the 19th. How about a non-Saturday evening this month? Any suggestions? Anyone? Bueller?

How about a Tuesday at 1:15 p.m.?

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Most Kosher wines are Kosher for Passover, but not all.

A Kosher wine can be not Kosher? Is that correct?

Asks the ignorant gentile.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

How about a Tuesday at 1:15 p.m.?

A Kosher wine can be not Kosher? Is that correct?

Asks the ignorant gentile.

Kosher vs. Kosher for Passover. Passover carries stricter rules stemming from not being able to eat leavened bread (bread that's risen due to yeast). Just because something is kosher for the rest of the year doesn't mean it's kosher for passover (e.g., bread is obviously a perfectly kosher food...but not for Passover). Yeast is, of course, an important ingredient in the wine making process, so it becomes tricky. Long ago, rabbis put their heads together and decided that for a wine to be considered kosher for Passover, the yeast in it cannot be yeast that's grown on bread (it usually comes from sugar instead).

Now, it happens that most kosher wines do this anyway (thus, the super-sweet varieties like Manischewitz or Kadeem). But then there is the large contingency of Jews, especially in America, that do not strictly keep Kosher for most of the year, but do observer most of the Passover rules, which means that they'll want to avoid "normal" (i.e., non-kosher) wines, because you have no way of knowing whether they use kosher for Passover yeasts.




Hmmm, I think that, just to make this thread retroactively on-topic, there should be a screening of the 10 Commandments at la casa. Or at least Prince of Egypt. Or maybe Ben-Hur.

[€uroMeinke]

Knobber? What part of the country is that term from?

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Knobber? What part of the country is that term from?

San Diego

[Gemini Cricket]

I very well may be going to my very first Seder.
I'm so very excited.
I need a Yamaha for my head.

[innerSpaceman]

hahahah, best thread hijacking ever. unless casa de mousepod will be playing The Ten Commandments!

[BarTopDancer]

or hosting a Seder.

[Not Afraid]

Can the word Schiska apply to GC? (Spelled like a schisika would spell it, of course.)