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GIOVANNI FOODS NEW SAUCES

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GIOVANNI FOODS NEW SAUCES

Posted on July 10, 2013

This OU certified company makes amazing sauces! Each sauce is an authentic taste of Italy. They have now introduced a new label: Greenview Kitchen Organic sauces. Under that label they produce organic pizza sauce, organic bruschetta sauce and organic pasta sauce. Additionally, they produce regular pasta sauce, pizza sauce, and bruschetta sauce. We did try Continue Reading »

VIP SAYS THEY CONTINUE TO PRODUCE

Posted on April 26, 2013

FROM KOSHER TODAY APRIL 22, 2013 Kosher Company Says it Continues to Produce Quality Products Despite Seizure By Staff Reporters QUEENS, NY — A kosher manufacturer of a host of products that was accused of producing the products in a plant infested with rodents would not comment on the accusations because of the ongoing investigation Continue Reading »

THE SILENCE HAS BEEN DEAFENING

Posted on April 25, 2013

Strange, init? Outside of the Failed Messiah blog and some general newspapers, there has been precious little written about VIP foods. We are not conspiracy nuts, but we are starting to wonder if there is a conspiracy of silence going on. Where are all the Jewish media? How can it be that no one seems Continue Reading »

INDEED, WHERE WAS THE MASHGIACH?

Posted on April 22, 2013

Now the Federal Gov’t has removed over one million dollars of “food” items from VIP Foods (Kojel, etc). Maybe it is just us, but we find this whole affair to be disgusting. No, not the Health Dept. or the Federal Government- rather the company. We posted an alert on Face Book, and we got a Continue Reading »

HOLY RAT “URP” BAT MAN! NYC SHUTS DOWN KOJEL FOR HEALTH REASONS

Posted on April 19, 2013

FROM THE NY TIMES Food and Drink April 12, 2013, 6:24 pm Comment Kosher Food Maker’s Inventory Seized Over Rodent Infestation By LUKE HAMMILL V.I.P. Foods, whose Queens headquarters were infested with rodents, according to federal authorities, sells its products under several brands, including KoJel.Screengrab from V.I.P. Foods Web site. V.I.P. Foods, whose Queens headquarters Continue Reading »

OUR POSITION ON KITNIYOT

Posted on March 18, 2013

OUR POSITION ON KITNIYOT DERIVATIVES KITNIYOT Perhaps no issue stirs as much debate as the debate swirling around kitniyot- generally translated as legumes. According to Ashenazi custom and law, we are not allowed to eat kitniyot on Pesach. Rabbi Yosef Karo, the creator of the Shulchan Aruch called the custom of not eating kitniyot a Continue Reading »

BEWARE: A TREFE BEER!

Posted on December 24, 2012

Here is a new beer that is totally trefe and assur for us to drink: Blue Moon’s New ‘Ale’ Is Half Wine By Venessa Wong on December 20, 2012 Just the idea of a beer-wine hybrid raises so many questions. OK, really, just one: Is that as disgusting as it sounds? Armed with two bottles Continue Reading »

RESTAURANT IN TIBERIAS SELF CERTIFIES AS KOSHER BY CONSCIENCE

Posted on November 26, 2012

Rabbis Threaten Woman Over Lettuce, Kosher Claims Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com On Tuesday In Tiberias, just before Avigail Aharon was about to open her restaurant for the day, two uninvited guests arrived – representatives of Israel’s state-funded haredi-controlled Chief Rabbinate. The rabbis reportedly came to warn Aharon – threaten her, some would say. Why? Because Continue Reading »

BET DIN IN ISRAEL SUMMONS HEBREW NATIONAL- IT’S A JOKE, RIGHT?

Posted on September 19, 2012

The American Jewish World reports: …The Beit Din Tzedek of Bnei Brak, the rabbinical court of Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, has issued summonses to Rabbi Aryeh Ralbag, head kashrut coordinator of Triangle K, which certifies meat as kosher for Hebrew National; and Shlomo Ben-David and Moshe Fyzakov, president and supervisor, respectively, for AER Services, Inc., which Continue Reading »

GIANT INCREASE IN COST OF MEAT AND CHICKEN

Posted on August 13, 2012

Recently, we saw five letters (count ’em-five!) which came from various meat and poultry distributors/suppliers who serve the Metro New York City area. Each letter said the same thing: AS OF AUGUST WHOLESALE PRICES ON MEAT AND POULTRY WILL RISE 15%. Two chicken suppliers have gone out of business. Although no one expects a shortage Continue Reading »