Haven't you always wanted a Tootsie Roll?
Now you can have them! They have gone through the process of getting kashrut certification with the OU, and are now kosher.
Too bad they don't sell them in Israel...
Is there anything left in America that is not yet kosher? I mean, besides pork and lobster, of course.
Sure... kosher phones, kosher buses, kosher army units...
ReplyDeleteok, I know that the first are starting to appear, and their are private buses for #2. I suppose for #3, many people would say that they don't exist here, either :)
lol
ReplyDeleteGrowing up we ate Tootsie Rolls. I don't remember them being in the "non-kosher" category of Oreos, M&M's, Cheez Doodles, etc.
ReplyDeletemaybe they had a hechsher at some point in the past and then lost it or gave it up? unlikely but maybe
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking that it might have had a local va'ad hechsher for a while, maybe.
ReplyDeleteBut we also chewed Trident gum, before gum became not kosher.
It also just might have been in the "What, candy needs a hechsher?" category. :)
gatorade is doing a kosher trial starting in january on the east coast. if they feel its worth it, they will expand and keep it kosher.
ReplyDelete(idea for kosher gatorade commercial: chassidishe tish with the rebbe and chassidim sweating gatorade colored sweat)
There is a piece about Tootsie Rolls in the book The Way it Was by Hindy Krohn the mother of Pesach Krohn, put out by Artscroll. In it she describes as a child how the Rabbonim made it ossur to eat Tootsie Rolls and other candies and how crushed she was about that. I hope that she is smiling up in Shomayim about this news.
ReplyDeletei hope that gatorade will be sold here. isotone costs 4 times as much
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