taffimai

Maybe they're shortbread cookies? Those don't have to have any leavening. Or are sweets entirely off the table? A cookie bouquet seems... beside the point for a solemn religious holiday, in any case.

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gnomi.livejournal.com

Oy.

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wesleysgirl.livejournal.com

I thought it was also no grains containing gluten, which would include the most common one, wheat. I find it hard to believe a company delivering cookie bouquets would make almond-meal cookies (although I guess you never know, maybe the owner of the company is Jewish and they DO make non-gluten cookies?).

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justhuman, this post immediately brought to my mind the ham advertised for Passover. Goodness.

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Even things containing no rising agents have to be prepared special for passover to get the 'kosher for passover' seal- they can't be made on the same pans that were used for regular cookies, for example.

I assume the cookies are kosher, just not kosher for passover and someone in the ad department didn't know the difference.

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hllangel

That one's a classic.

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Yep.

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Hee. Which begs the question of, "why would such a thing qualify as a gift?"

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Totally agree!

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Well, Passover isn't all that solemn, but yeah. Here's what it comes down to: all Kosher for Passover cookies I've ever eaten taste like EVIL. I do not think that a bouquet of such things would make a good gift.

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Regardless of the ingredients of the cookies, they'd have to be made in a Kosher for Passover facility, which means that all the equipment has to be Kosher for Passover and there can't be anything leavened anywhere in the facility. Given that it's a cookie factory, I really doubt it's Kosher for Passover.

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You're giving them more credit than I did.

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Yeah.

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I just had coffee, I can be magnanimous.

I also don't want to think about it being Passover already. *sighs*

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wesleysgirl.livejournal.com

Yes, it seems pretty unlikely that the whole facility is Kosher for Passover, and if it was you'd think they'd be advertising THAT fact more than anything else.

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Oh, that makes sense. Wow, not a good idea in so many ways!

I also didn't know until I just went looking now about the prohibition against grains associated with fermentation. Everything I can find about how matzo is made just says "white flour and water" so I can't figure out what kind of agricultural product is used for the flour, if wheat and a lot of other grains can't be used.

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That makes sense, too. "Here's a bouquet of evil cookies! Hope you don't choke on them!"

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Matzoh is made with wheat flour, true... not sure how that works (I think it has to do with the preparation? There is some sort of rule regarding how long the wheat and flour can be mixed together and how long it may bake), but in general any thing made for Chometz- wheat, spelt, barley, oats, and rye or legumes (depending on if you are Ashkenazi (European) or Sephardic (Mideastern) descent.

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Maybe the company is a Wolfram and Hart subsidiary?

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It's the amount of time it's mixed -- basically, it can't be allowed to rise.

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If I remember correctly, 18 minutes for mixed to done being cooked? Something like that.

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Yep! We like our chai, don't we?

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Yes. life is good.

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Ha, I wouldn't put it past them.

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kita0610.livejournal.com

They go great with ham and cheese.

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Mmmhmmm.

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I debated whether I should click this or not, but I just wanted to mention that Ashkenazi doesn't mean European and Sephardic doesn't mean Middle Eastern. I don't mean to be rude, it just bothered me.

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