Comments on: Pope Lick Monster - A: "I don't know what that is."

Pope Lick Monster - A: "I don't know what that is."

blue_beetle — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:29:51 -0800

Evil Monkey's Guide to Kosher Imaginary Animals (via)

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:51:35 -0800

I did this to my friend in Rabbinical school once... that's awesome.

By: dosterm

dosterm — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:06:56 -0800

I hope I never run into a Jaud, because I'd just end up offending the mother. "Awww, look at the little OH GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE"

By: sdodd

sdodd — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:12:57 -0800

I couldn't find a politically correct way to admit that I liked the way this demonstrates the absurdity of religious law, so I decided not to post a comment.

By: sdodd

sdodd — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:13:03 -0800

Oh, shit.

By: sdodd

sdodd — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:18:25 -0800

Lemme try again. MetaFilter: If it's licking the Pope, it's probably treyf.

By: Kronos_to_Earth

Kronos_to_Earth — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:20:21 -0800

Some more elaborate renditions and descriptions of a couple of the Japanese cryptids can be found here .

By: kosher_jenny

kosher_jenny — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:47:21 -0800

I approve of this post.

By: Artw

Artw — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:47:34 -0800

Heh. That was short but fun.

By: humannaire

humannaire — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:09:28 -0800

Hobbits may be kosher!

By: humannaire

humannaire — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:18:17 -0800

However, while we are on the subject of kosher slaughter.... ....shackling and hoisting. [Warning (animal brutality): Disturbingly True.]

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:30:02 -0800

(This has more practical consequences as well - if one is say cutting vegetables into a soup and you cut yourself and a drop of blood falls into the soup according to many opinions you don't have to kasher the pot. However, if it were a drop of pig blood you would have to). Well now actually that seems pretty damn reasonable. So the upshot is, if hobbits bleed in your soup you're okay?

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:16:04 -0800

Nebulawindphone, if you have a hobbit in your kitchen bleeding on your food, I'm pretty sure you have bigger issues than the kosherness of your soup. Generally speaking, any fictional character that you have bleeding in your kitchen is a warning sign of issues that transcend religious doctrine. I don't care how devout you are, if a bleeding Cornish Owl-Man bursts into your kitchen, your first thought will not be 'kosher or treyf?'

By: flashboy

flashboy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:39:57 -0800

The world needs more cryptogastronomy. And Google needs more than the eight results it currently returns for that word...

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:10:58 -0800

The comments bring up a good point what about the Loch Ness and other lake monsters?

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:36:02 -0800

The seder we went to last night had lamb that was raised on the host's family's farm. Its name was Conor up until it was rendered delicious.

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:42:13 -0800

The comments bring up a good point what about the Loch Ness and other lake monsters? There's some tricky classification to be done there. If it's a reptile or an amphibian, it's treyf. If it's a mammal, it's treyf unless it's got cloven hooves, which I doubt. If it's a fish, it's treyf unless it's got scales and fins. None of the images we've got so far are clear enough to show either, so we have to assume it's treyf until we've got further evidence. But there's one last possibility, and it's one that I find intriguing. The rabbinical tradition doesn't have much to say about dinosaurs, but archaeologists suggest that their closest modern relatives are birds. So it's possible that they'll count as birds from a halachic point of view. And the rules on birds are relatively loose — as long as they don't eat carrion, they're in. So (pending extensive rabbinical dickering, of course) if the Loch Ness Monster turns out to be an elasmosaur, it may be kosher after all.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:28:53 -0800

What about Grendel?

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:06:47 -0800

This was a little disappointing. I was hoping the interviewer would have some suggestions that actually stood a shot at being kosher, or would each bring up different laws, instead of just asking about animals that are mixes of other animals which they know are already tref. Do nerfs have cloven hooves?

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:55:26 -0800

Ooh, good point. And what about fauns? Are they kosher as long as you only eat the goat half?

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:25:31 -0800

You can't just eat the fish half of a mermaid, nebulawindphone...

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:55:21 -0800

nebulawindphone: The goat half of a faun or satyr is not kosher because if even if it did produce cud, I'm pretty sure that it would be the human half that does the chewing.