Kosher when convenient?

Cheffy, there's a bit of Jew in my family, but my Jewish Grandmother never bothered about Kosher, except to call pork "white beef" and bacon "thin mutton".

Anyway, who can resist a lobster. I live in an English East Coast town with lobster pots just offshore - I can get a lobster from boat to kitchen in ten minutes.

The Tanakh etc lays down rules re what is clean and unclean in terms of food, but surely these rules are down to hygeine. Islam and Judaism both originate in the middle east, which is bloody hot in tems of climate. Both of us know how critical it is to ensure that pork is cooked thouroughly, and most of the other forbidden foods are of similar ilk. The same applies to the separation of meat and dairy in the Jewish kitchen.

Like you, I'll be interested to see the answers from Kosher Jews.

Because they are not fully committed to their religious beliefs.

I’ve worked for a kosher family and they were VERY strict and never, ever broke from their strict diets.

Now, I’m on a strict diet for health reasons, and will be very good, but sometimes I break the rules. That is because I am weak and really want the higher protein foods.

Either you are or you are not you dont play games with this..................where ever you travel and however you can see to it that they have kocher food so there no excuse.................if they play it both ways they are just hypocrits.........................any way I BELIEVE FOOD AND HOW YOU EAT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT KIND OF PERSON YOU ARE ...........................................