What is a kosher pizza shop?

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I just want to know what it means. Thanks.

A way of selling you pizzas for double the cost.

Okay. Is it a pizza shop that’s owned by Orthodox Jews, right?

Truthfully, I don't have a clue.

Its a pizza shop that caters to Orthodox Jews by serving only kosher pizzas...ie pizzas made according to the strict Jewish dietary laws. Similar to Muslim halal rules. As I understand it Muslims and Orthodox Jews can eat at each other restaurants.

But in practice, I dunno...the more I read up on kosher rules on the Net the harder it is for me to imagine how a 'kosher pizza hut' would work though.

No pork would be allowed obviously.

But also you couldnt serve meat cooked in blood (so no sausage pizzas).

And apparently it is never kosher to mix dairy products with any meat in the same mouthful.

So you could serve plain old cheese pizzas, or cheese pizzas with vegetable toppings. But you couldnt serve any kind of meat toppings (except maybe anchovies?) even if the meat was slaughtered using the proper kosher rules because you cant mix meat and diary in the same food.

So no sausage, nor any pepperoni, pizzas could be served at a kosher pizzeria. If I understand correctly.

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Also you cannot mix meat and cheese - so cheese pizza options would be vegetarian and there would be no cheese on pizza with meat toppings. Presumably if both options are offered they would be prepared on separate equipment/surfaces.

The animal suffering opposite to Halal

I'm never going to a Kosher pizza shop then! I love pepperoni and cheese pizzas. Ideally with a good splash of Tabasco sauce.

Was about to say that.

And likely mediocre, embarrassingly I don't remember this stuff very well, but it will probably also mean there won't be meat with cheese at the same time.

Screw that.
What I wanna know is WTF is an "Asian burrito"?

I see it advertised on a local restaurant sign I often drive past.



And while we are on the subject...is a "kosher Asian burrito" possible?

Or a Kosher ham and cheese sandwich?

I once had a boss who was an Orthodox Jew and had a financial interest in a Kosher pizza shop, so yes it's a thing.

Being Kosher means being certified by a rabbinical authority. In the US, the Orthodox Union is best known for that. Having said that, Kosher restaurants are always either Meat or Dairy. A pizza shop is pretty much going to be Dairy so you can forget about meat ingredients.

One way to get certified is to show that all your suppliers provide Kosher ingredients. In the US there is a kind of milk called Xalav Yisroel, which is considered a higher standard. The pizzas at that shop were made with Xalav Yisroel cheese.

To be certified, the shop also had to show that it didn't do business on the Jewish Sabbath or holidays.

Even in large cities, there are usually very few Kosher eateries. Orthodox Jews very seldom eat out. This is one reason they love to travel to Israel because most restaurants there have Kosher certification even if most clientele aren't observant. So in Israel they can feel "normal".

Moose's combo pizza is one of my last holdouts from eating pretty kosher-ly. Oh, man, it's so good. And I also love cheeseburgers. But I can give those up more easily than Moose's pizza.

A kosher ham sandwich would not be possible to the best of my knowledge because ham is made out of pork which is not kosher.