wrote on Mon, 04 May 2009 14:27:03 -0500:

>> wrote on Mon, 04 May 2009 14:07:13 -0500:
>>
>>> Kosher salt gets its name not because it follows the
>>> guidelines for kosher foods as written in the Torah but
>>> because of its use in making meats kosher, by helping to
>>> extract the blood from the meat.
>>
>> I also would like to see the last word on this topic and
>> there is only one mystery unsolved, which is why the makers
>> of "Kosher Salt" use the various rabbinical certification
>> symbols?

> http://www.kosherquest.org/symbols.php

I see! A manufacturer who thinks that certification might be valuable
has to request it and so the symbols on a Morton package will have been
obtained in that fashion.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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