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Kashrus Updates:Beer,Tequila, Starbucks... Rabbi Yosef Eisen
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#Kashrus Updates: #Beer #Tequila, #starbucks Rabbi Yosef Eisen Shlita Rav, Kollel Bnei Torah 14 Menachem Av 5786
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Thank you.
just the uh
in this place
I wanted to begin with a a tremendous
yoid
from the
Yeshua's Yakov
a gavald galian that he uses
shu and ya
Simmon tesk
cut and olive
over there. He talks about
hanhogus
the takonis that are done for the robin
and he speaks about the way that takonis
and anhogus
should be set up and implemented
and he writes there
that the goal when it comes to takonis
hogus of all different areas and certain
ly in areas which people are odd for him
because they happen to be in the areas
of of food.
You know, people are very odd because we
do eat generally three times a day
throughout the entire year. Shabosima.
There are many takonis that Kazal
implemented legab foods
and he writes that whenever there is a
takona or an aoga that has to be
implemented for the raim for the kah
ail
even if it's it's the slightest of the
slightest possibility
that it could come to a problem. Mi says
that it's incumbent upon those that are
given the charge to be in the position
to safeguard the Raim that they watch
out for even
and he writes and he explains in such a
he writes that
means that there's something that exists
a problem
So he says just like if you have a roy
and you're
macking things in order to avoid a
problem from arising that's something
which could happen that's frequent to
happen that's to happen he says when it
comes to a to aila
and lisa in the long journey
Do we know that way things work a mut
that has a mitus could become a problem?
And ma he writes in that chuva he says
this is an incredible lion that he uses
madi
this is a says the Yeshua
that's mad
that's
established
and from this type of a this in
safeguarding
that they should be able to even address
the most
and be
so says the Yeshua
misel
From this I will not veer I will not go
away. Having said that I'd like to talk
about topics which we never spoke about
which happens to be
different
pastimes of people
items which we are very much frequent to
buy them. We have them and I'm going to
list to you what I I'll try to cover
these topics and that is the topic of
beer
which is such a dove or pushet which sh
doesn't have a beer doesn't have beer
person has an opportunity doesn't only
buy one beer he buys many beers and it
depends what type of a you have
you have a sophisticated you're going to
go for sophisticated beer
the most prevalent type of a drink which
has gained
wild popularity among the hamisha and
it's no longer single malts it's no
longer bourbons that are popular it's
tequila
seems that Mexico has a certain you know
and the am is very much boha
tequila
very popular
and the other topic which I'd like to
discuss is a topic which is not as
exciting
as beer not as exciting as tequila but
lice is a staple in in Clusero and
that's coffee and if we speak about
coffee
what's synonymous with coffee is
Starbucks
thousands upon thousands of Starbucks
throughout the country ma
Starbucks their corporate model is
as Rabbi Fishbane
of Chicago
wrote was quoted in an article that that
after great research he understood that
after every single three years they do a
soft remodel and after every single five
years they do a hard remodel. means that
they're constantly their corporate model
is constantly to do in their stores and
that has tremendous relevance and
tremendous impact
regarding our usage of Starbucks coffee.
And the fourth thing which is something
which is also very popular as we're
going to see is that's for much more of
a a below 20 drink and that's slurpees.
the kids are or maybe slurpies. You
You're asking what is slurpees? Okay,
that's it. So, slurpies is a is bought
in 7-Eleven and it's a it's a a drink
that belongs to their to their
corporation which we're going to talk
about. So at least if you have children
in just to understand some parameters
we're going to try to talk about these
things which are
in our beer
already from this we know that papa papa
was inhra in beer beer has been a
timehonored beverage for literally time
in memorial throughout all the dus there
has been a a A dis has been
the availability of beer in clusur. Beer
is basically made up of very traditional
ingredients. Very traditional
ingredients. It's made out of water.
It's made out of a grain typically
barley. Hops is a type of a vine which
adds a certain type of a a sweetness to
the beer. And of course we understand
that the in order to create a chain
reaction of things being converted you
need yeast. Yeast is a natural byproduct
of the abisha which he gives us in order
to break down sugars to turn into
starches and to have a lot of different
reactions chemical reactions that create
different foods. That was always the
model of making beer do
there were takonis on the purity of
beer. Back in the 16th century in the
1500s there were uh Quesa Willilm
implemented something which was called a
rain height
a rain height gabo
gibbat which means that they made purity
laws that they were only allowed to
produce beer out of very specific
ingredients
and those were the ingredients that were
only by law permitted
Fast forward
more than 500 years, things changed
rapidly and
very many decades. There was never even
a hashk on beer. Many years ago, it
started maybe some certain companies and
ma the larger companies had traditional
beer was kosher. Anybody that wanted to
buy for a sim for a shabas understood
years ago decades ago that there was no
sha today that mitsus
changed radically
mamish radically and if you're talking
about quote unquote updates I don't
necessarily want to call them updates as
much as takonis
that have now become
part and parcel of a need for Claus to
know if you're Zohir and as we're going
back to the
of the Yeshua
these are as you're going to see takonis
and hanhogus and that like many things
along the centuries are modified for for
very specific and good reasons as which
we're going to present to the tonight
same old same old is not good In this
society that we live in,
people want exciting exotic kadushim
and the companies have a pulse on that.
They understand that. and Ma
when they
went ahead and made a commitment that
they're going away from the typical
traditional beer model
and they opened up all over the country,
all over the world.
Breweries that were called micro
breweries and breweries or given the
name craft breweries. These are
breweries that have deviated
and have veered away from the
traditional
ingredients. The four traditional
ingredients of beer
have been literally expanded. It they
have lost their tur and that's exactly
what they want. They want excitement.
They want people to to be able to deal
with things that they never before. In
Boston many years ago, one of the micro
breweries said, "You know what? They
have a great idea. Why go ahead and have
people buy a a pizza, a pie, and a beer?
We'll make a beer that everything is
rolled up into one." And they made
pepperoni beer.
They made pepperoni beer with mamish
emiss pepperoni with meat sausage and
cheese. And the only thing that you have
to figure out is if there's if there's
you're talking about drinking a beer
maybe unbeknownst I mean they market it
as such. But just to give you an
understanding that the where the mindset
of these micro breweries of these craft
breweries are that they want to
introduce literally the most exotic
extreme flavored beers whether it's
crab, whether it's shrimp, whether it's
all these type of things which you would
not necessarily even know. And sometimes
either it's labeled as such or it could
be an ingredient. But the the key in
recognizing this years back and we're
going to see what happened within the
last year was that people were given the
anybody would ask could I buy any beer
I'm making could I buy any beer and
somebody would typically tell you you
know what you could get beer with the
hashka that would be the best thing
you're serving an oil
you could get from the big companies
even any type of a beer you want. Just
stay away from micro breweries and stay
away from these craft breweries because
these sm small little private breweries
that are literally laced throughout the
entire country and beyond
those are problematic because this was a
deal which was already cropping up 20
years ago. Okay. But fast forward that
it became the such a competition
in the industry that even large
breweries
were deviating potentially from their
traditional
mahalik of production of their beers. So
all of a sudden you know these Yadas
which filter into cautious agencies.
So now cautious agencies are bombarded
with Yadas
regarding the production of beer and now
they have to make decisions.
But one thing for sure the industry
changed. You're talking about updates
that people need to know. You're talking
about takonis and an hogus that people
need to know. What could be more
fundamental? Listen, did you ever go to
a sham without if you go to a sham and
there's no beer? You're you're almost
taking a chance of pe people almost
storming out and being upset. You don't
have beer. Where's the beer? Where's the
beer?
So, ma, you can't tell them to stay
because that wouldn't work.
you need to provide beer. So, as of
January 1st, I want to read to you a
a policy change
that was implemented and adapted in
unison
by
the nationalis
all
and also adapted once it was in that
gather of a taconos
because they're the ones that assume the
for the very large extended sibla
all the local ashkis followed suit
with the position that the large took
the nationalis took and they sent out
the following letter that I'm going to
read to you this is marked January 1st
2026.
We are writing to inform you about the
upcoming policy change. This was written
obviously prior to that about the
acceptability of beer. Historically
unflavored beers were generally assumed
to be kosher due to their simple
ingredients. And they stated the mamish
the ingredients that they use must be
bishass of papa water hops barley or
some other grain and yeast. However, the
rise of craft brewing and new production
methods has led to a proliferation
proliferation of flavored beers, diverse
additives, shared equipment, which all
even now if you had a brewery that was
producing regular standard beer, but all
of a sudden being that they introduced
all these exotic
extreme
profile beer S. So what happened to
their cumin? There are there are
kettles, brewery kettles that that get
up to 212.
And even though there's certain of the
beer production that have that have uh
in it cold may the cold is not there for
more than 24 hours and there's not a
shila of maybe
but it's
so all of a sudden and that's really
what is emer that what's emerged from
this letter informing that all of a
sudden what emerged was that they had a
picture of what would have always been a
very standard type of production all of
a sudden being compromised both from the
additives from the actual ingredients
ben to the kum
and mla
the U the star K the okay all took the
same position and ma as of January 1st
Everything has to be all be all all
functions and events that serve beer
they must carry a kosher certification
and you're going to say well there's
such a
is it such a if generally in the market
there's a thousand choices literally
that's that's the number a thousand
options of kosher beer you just have to
be mimog
But if you if you're
what the Gmorra says, I'll time it
because it's not true because there are
there might not be what you particularly
want or you particularly like because
you taste it not knowing it. But ma
there is such a choice and and therefore
they took this position to change a
policy. So all of a sudden say here you
have it a do a nifla that for decades
upon decades something which was
rendered as innocuous something which
was considered a nonproatic
item which was so noa to to clal without
any problem without any issue and all of
a sudden boom there's a real issue a
real issue and therefore they encourage
that this should be reinforced into all
the different all the different um all
the different communities all the
different different cry in to know and
does everybody know of this? No. But
that's exactly the godless
that the is to be the
to have in all to make
in a in a better m of
this is also something which was
important issue to talk about that's as
far as that's as far as beer is
concerned. I I want to go as because as
the time proceeds, I want to go and talk
about tequila.
Tequila,
as I said before, is it's a it's a
liquor. It's distilled. It has a lot of
similarities on how it's produced. It's
produced primarily in Latin America,
parts of the country, Mexico.
There are plants that the Aishta
gave plants. Who discovered the plant?
Some some very lucky person discovered
this plant a blue agave which when
harvested properly and produced properly
ends up emerging in a very popular drink
called tequila. And this tequila
is something which
has different schlavim.
They have a schlav that they age or they
don't even age at all. The plant after
they go through a process where the
sugars are broken down of the agavei
plant and turned into this into this
sweet or tasteful type of a liquid type
of a juice from the plant and that juice
is called tequila. That's simple to the
simplest of all the tequilas are the
simple blanco silver white tequilas.
Now, how do you know that something is a
better tequila of which we're going to
talk about or something which is a
simple one?
I don't have to answer that question.
Money, right? You could tell something
is more expensive, something is more
premium, something is more upscale, it's
going to cost you. It's going to cost
you. The
next type of a tequila is called
respado. Repado reposado.
It's a reposado is a item is a tequila
that's generally aged for two months to
a year. And then they have another
tequila where you have to really get
some ada and how to even pronounce it.
is pronounced ano
even though it's spelled a n j a ne j o
but that's how it's pronounced.
Now that item could be aged between a
year and three years.
There's extra and yako
which could be aged between three years
or more.
And so posh. So what's a shila? What's
the problem? So far we haven't heard no
problem. What is it different than any
type of a regular liquor that doesn't
have any shilus to it that's distilled?
What's what could be the issues?
Especially the idea is they're aged in
American oak barrels. American oak
barrels. So what could be the Shiloh?
But the terret is is that there are some
very significant problems which also
have led
to a very big tuml. A very big tum
because normally any going back also a
person makes a make a
you make
an
immediately you go to for the
is you go to Costco
you get a very large
bottle of tequila the size that is fit
to have gone on
a nice size of it doesn't cost you much
money and the am goes crazy over it they
love it it's a great drink not too much
money
you know it's nois
It's great
until
the following was
set out to the once again.
I I need to stop now just to to give you
a perspective. the the people that are
the ones that
present and I'm aim
these type of items these type of
beverages that are very much embraced
by unzion
they're extremely big bene
they're very level-headed people.
They're not sensationalists
and they're not getting fed a lot of
energy from getting the into a tuml
mode. Some people could could feel
energized by getting people in a tuml
mode. These people that are in charge
have a a very great depth of
responsibility and understand the
repercussions of their statements of how
it affects so many people. So ma they
are what the rav says they're massin
that they're they're very contemplative
they're very thought through when they
say or take a new position. So clappy
this also the problems that emerged over
here are twofold. Number one is that
the more the drink became popular the
more they wanted to guarantee that it
was very appealing to its
supporters
to this the constituents of the of their
their patrons the the people that go to
the store and buy these things. So ma
they became very conscious about making
sure that it has the right taste. It's
smooth
but having the right taste the profile
the right profile means that it doesn't
have to necessarily be aged in a
American oak barrel.
The mitsus is
that barrels are
right. That's that's a sugius. That's a
sugo.
When something is
in in barrels of
there is a very clear transfer of real
flavor.
Now many of these tequilas
and there's no way to know it from the
ingredient panel. There's no way to look
at a bottle and be able to tell which
barrel it was aged in. It's efer. So ma
if you have a drink that that's very
appealing that's very cost effective in
buying
very good tasting.
So ma what was discovered is a lot of
the the marketing of this dependent
depended on what type of barrel they
they
aged it in and it could have been aged
in a brandy barrel in a wine barrel and
the male producing that drink. Besides
that, there is a law
making it legal
not to list a certain percentage of
important ingredients.
One of those ingredients of utmost
importance is glycerin.
The profile
the ingredient profile of glycerin is
made for one thing. In order for it to
be very easy to palletize it, very easy.
So it should go down without a pro. It
should be very sweet and desirable. It
shouldn't, you know, you take a strong
tums shot a drink and you're ready to to
to
take your head and put pull it back.
It's such a unless you're used to it,
you know.
But a drink, the appeal of a drink is
totally in its smoothness. One of the
most effective way to to guarantee
and to create that smoothness
is with glycerin now. So what's wrong
with glycerin? What's wrong with
glycerin?
If it's close to glycerin, nothing's
wrong with glycerin. But how about if
it's glycerin coming from the byproduct
of an animal
what happens? No
other suga
ta whatever the however they produce
animal glycerin there's animal glycerin
and vegetable glycerin and it happens to
be that both are equally as effective in
the market
of companies that buy it for that
purpose.
There's no difference between animal and
vegetable except one determining factor
price on the market. Once again, migate,
you go back to to the D moment, the
price in the market. If there's a 2 cent
per ounce difference in a price, a
company will not buy that particular
glycerin
because if you buy over the course of a
year a million ounces, it makes a
difference. So ma having having said
that so now you have already a tequila
this popular drink that the
you know isa
now what is its conscious status
now that there's a remember a market
always determines
the the way things are produced. You
want to produce them in an appealing way
and in a marketing way. Mela, all these
things will take effect. If the
companies feel that aging it in a a wine
barrel, a brandy barrel will improve it.
Adding a little bit glycerin and it
makes no difference. This clear this
time they had to buy glycerin. It was on
the market cheaper than and available
the animal glycerin makes no difference.
They don't even ask what do you have?
They don't ask except they ask of one
the reason why they would ask only if
it's underk then of course they have to
ask. So ma what comes out of all this?
What's the And and there's now there's a
new tequila. There's something called a
Anyo
crystal crystallina.
Cristino,
a very popular,
a very very popular tequila.
And that certainly could be aged in wine
barrels. What's even also another
concern is many times they have to get a
a certain color profile. It has to have
a certain color a deep sometimes they
have a color after they go ahead and
transfer into a barrel and the color
loses its depth. They have to compensate
for the depth of that color. So what do
they do?
They could introduce flavoring.
They caramel. Thank you very much. They
could they could introduce flavoring.
Ma all of a sudden something which was
so innocuous because it was just a no
difference at a plain drink coming from
a a blue agave plant all of a sudden
takes a spin. So,
so the CRC of Chicago,
a
very of a younger man named Akiva Ni
House, a Bentora Moik Bentora
has thrown himself in this to the point
where I asked him a question because as
as soon as you come up and you when you
say the Kirkland tequila is no longer
recommended. It's not a it's an uphill
battle. It's uphill battle to people
that buy that shabas. It's an uphill
battle.
But and you have to bring
okay. So if that's the case, that's the
case. But once again, following that
that passionate
position of the
you have to make taconist that makes
sense. The taka that makes sense is yes
that there are that there are a lot of
tequilas that are free from these
shistas because they were either they're
either certified or they were researched
and therefore you go back to the
to these
agencies that serve
the Star
has very extensive liquor lists.
Star and the CRC has put in a tremendous
tremendous resources and kus and it's
something which should be
looked into before you buy a drink.
You have to you have to be m it's it's a
which is of
now what happens in a din in a din of
in a din determining the status of
something when it's rur so ma
does not stand in a m where it's echelus
and over here it's so echel of ru it's
almost less than than just pressing a
button
and looking into to see the list and the
list gives you guidance. So with beer we
already know with beer we already know
what the position of the are. So next
time somebody's making a
you understand you have to get a
certified beer. Period. A certified
beer. And certainly there's another over
here. What you want to do in your own
house, you should also be careful
because what you do in your own house,
especially you have married children and
those married children live in different
neighborhoods and they dive in different
shy
affects them. But
when you bring something into a mo
you are taking is for the
and even though of course a person has
to be zir in everything that they do the
zahis that a person has to exercise
once you become a liaison
for
And you
as a balima
as a balorite
as somebody that now needs to bring
something for the sra's consumption
what type of anas lays on your shoulders
but theas is not daunting and theas is
not crippling theas is is beenu to be
able to be guided there are these lists
you just need to access them
and you have to be cognizant of it. No
different than you're going to figure
out what color tablecloths and what type
of plastic wear. If you want to get
clear plastic wear or the white plastic
wear or what type of cups you want to
get the disposable very flimsy cups or
you want to get hard plastic cups,
doesn't it behoove all of us to also
make sure that what the people are going
to be placing into those cups
is on
and we we make it. So I'm I'm presenting
two things. Is he talking about things
which are I believe that these two
things are major are are have a major
it's
a pera
go out and see I don't have I don't I'm
not selling you these these I'm not
selling you the need to know them I'm
just telling you open up your eyes and
next time notice go ahead notice when
you go to sham zaka Notice how many of
those beers are not certified. Notice
when you go and you get a tequila. So
maybe it might not be certified. Maybe
it might be approved without
certification. There's no way for you to
know that because it's chabas. But you
want to know that during a week day you
want to go ahead and know that looked
like it took very nice beautiful bottle
of tequila by the bar mitzvah. Take a
write down the name and see was this
something was this a recommended one.
So
and there are people and the ways work
rabbi say the ways work is that is pom
used to speak about the about the
of the of the
inish
about
that was a whole that
The ha gerba used to talk about about
just gathering yadas yadas empower
people and yadas don't have to be
grandased
could be like melik tells us
a little here and another here and all
of a sudden you find yourself being the
recipient and the holder of a lot of
especially things that are neg tua to
us. Now I I want to I want to go ahead
into the discussion
of coffee.
Now just to just to mention I mentioned
about the the popularity of specifically
Starbucks. It used to be there was a
very clear idea when somebody would ask
could you drink coffee in Starbucks.
Now, I want to make a disclaimer.
Whatever. We're going to talk about
coffee. If you're in the middle of a
road and driving to the Poconos and it's
1:30 in the morning and you're passing
by your Starbucks, it's open 24 hours a
day, you don't make just go in there and
get a black coffee
to be safe and to make sure that you
have caffeine in your system, to make
sure that you're not seeing double. And
that's not the time to make
when you you need to stay focused. You
need to be safe and keep your family
safe and you're behind you're driving a
car and you're behind the wheel. You do
whatever it takes. It's we're not
talking as we're going to see we're not
talking about
but we're talking about when you it used
to be that there was like kamat a
ironclad rule regarding the hra of
patronizing
drinking in a Starbucks and we're
talking about regular coffee we're not
talking about the fancy items which
which is their a big list which I'm
going to refer to bin at the end of this
at the end this portion of presenting
this that
it used to be that somebody would ask
could I drink coffee in Starbucks. The
answer would be what type of a Starbucks
are you talking about? Is it a
full-ervice Starbucks where they have
sandwiches and hot food and other
things? Or is it a kiosk Starbucks that
is just literally selling croissants and
another type of a baked items and coffee
and all sorts of uh lemonades and
whatever it might be.
And the Sur was that there was a
understanding that Starbucks makes a
different very different type of a
machine, a coffee machine. Normally what
you have is you have a a Dunkin Donuts
coffee machine where there is a holder
that holds the grinds
and that is usually held in a filter in
a paper filter. The water the hot water
goes through it and it makes coffee.
The way that the Starbucks machines are
designed are that they have metal metal
cones and those metal cones don't
accommodate a a paper a paper filter.
They put the grinds directly into the
cones and they they go ahead and they
put hot water through that. So the Sara
of giving guidance to to the giving
guidance to the that the
kiosk kiosk Starbucks were okay was the
fact that there's no tariff. So even
when they take and remove the cones
what's a sh there's nothing tra there
we said passing by when we just
mentioned about the coffee they go
through corporate changes
and they made this change recently a
very very big change regarding the idea
for unibore
they made the change that Even in the
kiosk, even in the kiosk, they remove
the cones and they wash them.
And what do they do? Sometimes they wash
them in a nearby area where they have
better sinks. Like a lot of Starbucks
and Target are next to each other. They
could be washing them in tray for sinks.
And also a lot of these kiosks following
a change in a business model
started to serve hot sandwiches.
So wherever they would again be washing
the the cones,
they they would be exposing the cones to
ben of potential tus.
So no longer do you have that level of
being assured that in a in a in a dinky
small kiosk Starbucks there's no problem
because there could be a problem. Now
what's interesting is is that an
interesting shila that the CRC of
Chicago dealt with is that in many
machines across the country, what they
created is that they would put a pellet
like very similar to a dishwasher where
you wanted to go ahead and clean the
dishwasher and sanitize it. They
sometimes put a pellet in it and they
put on a cycle of hot water and it and
it sanitizes the dishwasher.
They did that also in Starbucks for
thousands of Starbucks. They they
designed a pellet that would go into the
machine and then the machine would be
turned on and it would go through and it
would wash the cone in place. So that
was great news until what's interesting
is Rabi Fishbane visited some individual
Starbucks. In other words, he would
after this he said, "Wow, this takes
care of the the kash of of them taking
out the cones and washing it together
with the tarface."
>> So this maybe changed it the other way.
You hear you hear this remodeling
position that they they take in a
corporate from a corporate angle.
But what he found was that in some of
the smaller kiosk Starbucks that he
visited each and every one of them was
still doing the same thing that they did
previously
that they would have these cones. They
removed them. They washed them. Would
they wash them? I don't know where they
wash them. wash them maybe in a
neighboring sink. They maybe they washed
them while they were cleaning out from a
hot grill grilled cheese sandwich.
So Ma he presented this to his a basin
and they said no this doesn't if it
would be across the board protocol of a
of this is the new
that Starbucks creates as protocol. So
ma you could be assured now hundra now
not now now even in the regular
Starbucks even the full scale Starbucks
the full service Starbucks they don't
take out this cone from the machine but
once you see that there's a a yiml
oh yiml
is not already across the board so even
though it's a muta muta
it doesn't matter they're not changing
their policy back. This is maybe mish
the the exact position the exact words
of the Yeshua Yak that even in mut
how you supposed to make a ton
and that's what they're basing
in a clarion way that
I'm not going to move from this because
a muta could turn into whole thing could
be taken apart. So ma
you see over here that Starbucks
can be a place where you buy drinks but
you know what the the CRC did a
tremendous service for Clus and they put
a two or three page list of all the
drinks and beverages available in
Starbucks. some of them having very
significant problems. For example, a a
very popular very
refreshing drink called they came out
with a drink refreshers.
It's a it's a long time star Starbucks
very popular
and it's like a really supposedly
gushmaka drink. It's like a a blast of
cold. It's mish
probably. It's a refresher. But there's
only one catch to this refresher. The
catch to the refresher is it has white
wine in it. So what's interesting is
just to show you sometimes the lack of
yadas that people have. Somebody asked
Rabbi Fishbane who spoke about this.
They said what's wrong with white wine?
President actually asked it what's wrong
with white wine? Yeah. you know, you
know, maybe, oh, it's only red wine
that's a problem, not white wine. But
the but here you have also another
another tremendous
eyeopening cl that the the fact that
there's so many moving targets within
this humongous corporation that's naya
all over the country to have what could
be wrong with a regular Starbucks
coffee. What could be wrong with that
from the from the perspective of the
unnowledgeable and from the perspective
of just the
what could be who who says that whoever
heard that there should be a problem
with black coffee. Now just as an aside
in Hil's Bishakum in Yain Giml
there's a discussion of whether coffee
is subject to the bish
and the
and that's how it's capac
in gimmel in the in the of the of the
marshal of the rabbar
holds that there is in coffee in he
calls about it. He says except for the
possibility of
he says if it's a it's a black coffee it
would be fine. is not subject to because
of the the fact that it's made of of
water and it's not really a beverage
in that sense because it's water and the
water is not and the water is not
it's a plain beverage some or maybe
other
of
is that coffee is not subject to except
the in the
He brings down the a of the
wasp the wasp on on coffee that was made
by a but that's a that's a that's a but
the is that it's not subject to but we
do see but there's so many other shus
over here no who would have ever dreamed
and that's really what what we nearly
need to take out of this who would
dreamed at looking at a black cup of
coffee that there should be a problem.
But it goes back to to basic denim of
Yora
that you're right mit the coffee bean
that's produced in the machine there's
nothing wrong with it
the product. What could be wrong with
the product with a with a black? What
could be wrong with that? Oh, but if you
understand how it's produced, if you
understand the machinery that has to be
engaged, if you understand the way the
machinery is constructed, you understand
the way the machinery is either washed
or not washed, ma, and what else it's
exposed to, not even directly put into
the cone itself that holds the grinds,
but but you're having it right next to
hot
grilled cheese which is a hot other hot
bacon. So all of a sudden you're right
of the of the food itself. But what
about the ble of the caum? So this is
again another eye opening. What's the
bottom line over here? What's what do we
what's the takeaway from this? They have
also a very extensive list literally
going ahead and presenting to the
on their
on their website literally a whole 20
items that are sold in in Starbucks that
tell you that either kalutin are no good
they tell you it's good I'll give me
give you one example there are certain
espressos there certain types of drinks
that are made. Espresso is a is a
concentrated
coffee grinds that's put that's pressed
in a in a small little kali
and that small little kay has a
tremendous amount has a certain ratio of
water going into and the end is a very
hot
strong item. There could be two problems
with that. Even though they could have
by now they maybe switched machines
but this item which you saw that's like
a little it's like a little type of a
cup you know that that goes and it gets
inserted on top of the machine that cup
could be washed in their regular sinks
in the regular dishwashers
also
they could produce
they could produce items from that
little so that espresso he can't use it
because it could be washed with tarfus.
But even if you have something which is
kosher that's coming directly from the
machine,
hot beverage coming from the machine, it
shouldn't be it should be used daff in a
paper cup because any other type of a
glass caim
potentially were exposed to ble of.
So these are the type of hraas that they
present to the consumer but the consumer
has to look at them. So if a person is
traveling lush you're traveling you know
you're going to be going in a far
distance you're going to be traveling to
whatever state you're going to and you
might be traveling through the night you
might be traveling through the day you
might not need a beverage you're you're
you know you're a big fan a coffee fan
and you want to know is there what could
I drink? What could I have? What could I
serve? What can I get my wife, my
children? What you should do is that you
should have that. Print it out. If
you're a coffee drink and you know that
the beverage you're going to have is is
uh is basically Starbucks. You should
make sure you should make sure you print
it and you have your two dozen beverages
that are sold in the average Starbucks
that you have clearcut information where
they could be used, where they can't be
used and they could be used, how they
should be used. So again, you have a
third major topic that's at the
beer, the tequila, and then to get you
sober, you could have the coffee, the
black coffee. So it's it's in that
order. So ma but the last thing that I
want to just talk about very much
pikitzer and that's with um and that's
with slurpies. Slurpies is a is a drink
is a syrup that's owned by Coca-Cola.
That's uh that's available in places
called 7-Eleven that also are you know
it's it's a question I'm not going to
get into because it's already one minute
to my but LMISA the are writeups once
again in the star K website in the CRC
website there are very clearcut
descriptions of what the potential
problem is and what is and what you
could do what you can't do so
I sham and ma I I do want to I do want
to tell you I want to finish off and
saying that
having a position that you are mabal on
yourself a position to ask questions to
ask questions to
This is a
when you take for a moment and you do
research, you figure out what what am I
going to do? What am I going to get? The
problems are much greater in this. You
know this, you could talk about these
things which are negl for for hours on
end. The traveling just to to finish off
one m one minute. I got rashus from the,
you know, from the balabos over here to
to say one other thing. You know, it
used to be when Brim had basim,
they would go to where? They would go to
the Poconos.
I mean, maybe would go to Lake George
for a couple of days.
That is so p.
That is almost as if you want to say you
want to take a ride on a dinosaur.
You want to go to you want to go to
Switzerland. You want to go to Russia.
You want to go to Nigeria and Africa and
any single place. There's no such
limitation anymore. And we're talking
about we're talking about very good
boys. We're not talking about Stam
Vigay. If I would tell you just hearing
it hearing it about I I asked somebody I
said so where you eating where you get
oh they told us this they told us that
how you doing it oh we we were able we
kured we cauter the oven we put it on
the highest degree the this is what I'm
telling you is the point that I'm making
is it's incumbent upon us to with aa and
withma
to to lead to lead especially the next d
next door which is coming very
emboldened to go to places to use things
this is if a person adapts a a position
to teach that you have to ask just like
you're planning where you going to go
where you going to sleep which hotel
you're going to use it shouldn't be less
don't give the what creates our kaduca
any less intention
a person is
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