FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Kosher Food for Travelers in Modern Times
Old Sep 10, 2009 | 12:04 pm
  #14  
goodo
All eyes on you!
25 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: SYD
Programs: VA Plat, AC 50K
Posts: 2,905
Originally Posted by SYDguy
I agree it is not my contention nor logical. But why is it logical that pork (or this or that or whatever) is not kosher ? I get that pre-refrigeration pork or prawns would quickly be dodgy, so probably not a bad rule to avoid them back in the day; but that is not the case now so why avoid them?
It's not based on logic. Food that is unkosher in not unkosher because it'd be hard to keep it fresh back in the day. It's unkosher because God said so. Why should anything that is frozen, freezedried, long life change that?

g
goodo is offline