SC - Re: kosher/halaal animals, paraffin/kerosene

[Sharon R. Saroff]

Kangaroos are not kosher because they do not have cloven hooves.  An
interesting note, Giraffe is kosher although there is some debate as to the
proper way to shecht this animal (where on the neck to make the cut).

Sindara


At 12:08 PM 3/17/99 SAST-2, you wrote:
>Greetings fair gentles,
>        Alas my knowledge of Jewish and Islamic food laws is rather 
>scanty (even though it seems that every second butcher in Cape town 
>is either halaal or kosher).  However, I have some knowledge of the 
>chewing habits of the beasts of the field.  Of those queried in the 
>last digest:
>	goats do chew the cud (just like sheep & cows) and have cloven 
>hoofs (hooves?),
>	rabbits do not, although their charming habit of reingesting 
>caecal pellets to get the most out of their munch, might have 
>distressed the odd rabbi.  (incidentally, Cairistiona - my lady wife 
>- does a delicious roast rabbit - strips of bacon over the top and
>stuffed with butter and mushrooms - that is probably as 
>unkosher as you can get.)
>	Moles are (as someone pointed out) not herbivorous.  However, voles 
>(or at least those vole species I am familiar with) are.  Does anyone 
>actually eat voles though?
>	I would be interested to know if kangaroo is kosher.  Kangaroo has a 
> delicious venison like meat but I am willing to bet that it was
>overlooked when the laws were written.  It does not have cloven feet 
>but it does chew the cud (or rather, kangaroos rechew a proportion 
>of their food intake in a manner analagous to cud chewing).  The 
>question is simply idle curiosity.  I am unaware of any SCA period 
>recipes for macropods.
>	On Ras (& others) comments on paraffin/kerosene, in Australia (or at 
>least the bits Cairistiona and I lived in), we used the word kerosene 
>for kerosene (or the more colloquial "kero" as in "a kero lamp") and 
>paraffin for the waxy substance Ras mentions (or its liquid form).  
>	In South African English, kerosene = paraffin and "paraffin" stoves 
>are the major cause of the frequent house fires in the poor 
>townships.   However, paraffin is also called paraffin (we 
>use the incredibly sticky liquid form in our lab.), which leads to a 
>certain amount of confusion (but not much as very few people actually 
>use "real" paraffin).	I have no idea how US or UK English speakers 
>use the terms.   From past experience with other terms, I suspect 
>that it varies from region to region and between social classes in 
>both countries.
>I remain, yours etc.
>Jan van Seist
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