When the Eida Chareidis Kashrus Division complains, it is not always only about kashrus as the supervision feels compelled to provide an all-encompassing hashgacha.
Such a hashgacha includes the final word on packaging of items bearing the Eida Chareidis logo. This has led to a pashkavil against Angel’s Bakery, the largest in Eretz Yisrael, pertaining to packaged rolls distributed to supermarkets and stores around the country. The Eida found the packaging offensive and unacceptable, adding the bakery went ahead with the wrapper ad campaign despite warnings over the same packaging in past years.
In its media statement the Eida adds “Angel’s promises to stop using the offensive wrapper immediately and we call upon the tzibur to be cautious to avoid bringing this package into one’s house.”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
12 Responses
Could someone share with us what the Eida found upsetting about the wrappers of a box of Twinkies or whatever it was they were complaining about/??
Where is the picture of the packaging??
let’s see it
What was offensive about the packaging?
does someone know what is/was on the wrappers that was offensive?
What was on it already? A dovor achar?
Thanks YWN for a basically incomplete and useless article. What was so offensive about the packaging? Was there an Israeli flag on it or was it a joke about “the time the president, the pope and a chosid walked into a bakery?” Give us some useful information b/c otherwise we’ll all have to go out and buy the offensive package of rolls just to find out. By the way, seems to me that by printing pashkavilim about this after the bakery already agreed to stop using the package is really just loshon hara.
I have no idea what the packaging looks like that it s offensive to someone, but I wish they would be as careful with making their companies not print tons of pictures and words (including their symbol) on the inside packaging of many products, making it extremely difficult if not impossible to open these packages on Shabbos. Their concern for tznius should not be greater than their concern for chilul Shabbos.
Does anyone happen to have a picture of the wrapper? What’s supposedly wrong with it?
I looked at the website, and while I couldn’t see any offending pictures on the packaging, some of their advertisements included women who weren’t dressed in a tolerable manner (such that most frum kids are taught to look the other way if someone dressed that way approaches). The company probably didn’t intend for that packaging to be used in Hareidi areas, and the problem will go away quickly.
Yes #8 (Nechomah)!!!! I completely and totally agree! Wonderful observation.
It must include a picture of an Iphone, or heaven forbid a internet addresss