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Syag Lchochma –

Thank you. Regarding the 2% rule: According to FDA regulations all ingredients have to be reported on the label (with the exclusion of e.g. specific spices, if the label says spices). I was told this in an email by a representative of the FDA. There is a two percent rule which may have caused this rumor to start, but it isn’t a kashrus concern. It has to do with grouping ingredients together at the end.

Prince Charming – Thanks.

welcome to the club dude

hello99 –

He is not ignorant at all. He is well informed of the metzius. This is a fact. You do not have to believe me and I suppose I wouldn’t believe the testimony of an anonymous blogger either. But you yourself admit to his intelligence and to your surprise that one of such intelligence would issue such psakim, so it would behoove you to at least admit the possibility that perhaps there is something you didn’t think of. (And I mean know disrespect by that. I think you are probably the biggest talmid chacham here and I am not chas veshalom coming to put you down. I just happen to respect my rav more.)

I am not going to debate this with you, because I am afraid I won’t do a good enough job, and I would not want to chas veshalom disgrace my rav due to my own shortcomings. I am confident that he can stand his ground in any area of halacha. That’s all.

Mod 72 –

The 2% thing is a myth. I contacted the FDA myself and they wrote to me that everything must be included in the label.

The only questions are with certain ambiguous terms, such as spices or flavorings. They are not required to write all the specific ingredients, they may put some under such headings. These you have to be careful with.

It was not my intention to engage in a Halachic discussion on this thread. I only meant to point out that there is a valid limud zechus.

Cinderella – You absolutely did the right thing by communicating your thoughts, to her and to us. As I said, my only intention is to inform you that there is a valid limud zechus.

Sam2 – Thanks for getting that.

supergirl613 –

I’m not saying you should do this. My main point is that you shouldn’t be alarmed if you see people doing this, because they have what to rely on.

Again, I know a lot of people don’t hold this way, and I am not coming to pasken for everyone. I am just saying that it is an opinion that’s out there, and one which I personally hold by (per my rav).

Hehe. You wish!

cantgetit –

Just answered you, in my above post.

cinderella –

Yes. As long as you know what each ingredient means and you know they are all kosher, you are fine. Though as usual, ask a rav before listening to some anonymous blogger.

(By the way, did your Big Gulp have a hechsher on it?)

cantgetit –

There is no reason to assume that there is a problem. There are a few halachic arguments one can make to that effect, but I think they are beyond the scope of this discussion (my point was just to say that there are those who say it is fine, so one should not be alarmed seeing a seemingly frum Jew doing so).

The halacha in Shulchan Aruch is here:

http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=9146&st=&pgnum=127

WIY –

Nothing will change. No condemnation will change anyone’s minds. I accept that some form of condemnation is necessary if only to disassociate ourselves from these people for political reasons, but a one paragraph public statement should suffice. For us regular people, there’s nothing we can do anyway, and dwelling on it and feeling guilty is silly and only playing into the hands of some very cynical, hypocritical, and bigoted people.

Oh yeah that sounds much more accurate than my idea. Whoops.

yentingyenta –

I only asked because Wikipedia seemed to say that Silverlight works with Chrome on every version of Windows except 2000, just not with Macs.

Popa – Not everyone holds it is so simple. Did you read that Ami article?

Hehe. Listen, just because it’s pretty doesn’t mean it’s stupid.

Hey don’t listen to her, I use Chrome and I love it.

Chrome is great for bookmarks. If you bookmark anything with a favicon (that little icon that shows up next to the site name – on YWN it’s that gray ball with a white zigzag through it that’s supposed to say ywn) you can make the favicon stay on the top of your browser without any words to clutter up the space. Just bookmark it and then right-click it and hit edit and delete the words. This way you can have forty pretty, little, easy to use bookmarks on top of your page. For some reason I haven’t found this available on any other browser, though perhaps things are different since the last time I experimented.

DaasYochid – It does remember me, but it still automatically logs me out, and then I have to click log in again on the CR. Too much work for my fingers.

Yeah, me too.

Sometimes I do, but it’s annoying because for some reason I have to log in separately to do so, and when I do it automatically logs me out of my regular CR account. And your reason too.

Oh now I get it. 🙂

Huh? I don’t get it. Maybe in truth it was not switched, but the mother of the dead one is convinced that the live one is hers and that therefore it must have been switched.

Maybe he knew whose it was, because he figured out that the other was lying. There are professionals who can do this today, so if he was so smart he was probably able to read them. But he needed evidence, so he orchestrated this whole scheme in order to get the liar to confess.

Sam2 –

Also look up the makor in Maseches Kallah (rabasi). I don’t have time now but I will do so myself over Shabbos, because if I remember correctly it was mashma from there that it’s not so pashut that the halacha is like the Chachamim (then again, the stam Gemara in Nedarim should still trump that).

lol for some reason most people don’t