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Can you buy sliced watermelon from a supermarket?
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In honor of National Watermelon Day 🍉 we’re sharing the answer to this commonly asked question. ➡️ Can you buy sliced fruit from a supermarket, fruit store, restaurant, or caterer? 🥝🍓 Watch as OU Kosher Rabbinic Coordinator, Rabbi Yitzchok Gutterman, explains. 📧 Sign up for our Halacha Yomis email at oukosher.org/halacha-yomis/ to get answers to more commonly asked questions like this one!
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can you buy sliced watermelon from a
supermarket so a non-kosher knife can be
assumed to have some kind of residue on
it from the oil or fat that you cut in
the past
however the Ramones tells us that when
you're talking about someone who cut a
lot of fruit so first of all a fruit
store can be assumed to have dedicated
fruit knives and secondly even if it
isn't dedicated after a cut a few fruit
whatever leftover residue there was on
the knife is already gone wiped away in
bottle so therefore you can buy fruit
sliced fruit from a fruit store or a
supermarket where you know they've used
that the knives and they've cut a ton of
fruit however a restaurant or a caterer
where they're going they cut the the
fruit and then they cut the cake and
they're going back and forth from kosher
to non-kosher with just the wipe in
between that would not be okay so buying
from a restaurant or a caterer sliced to
it or eating from a restaurant or cater
a sliced fruit would not be okay for a
fruit store or a supermarket that would
be okay