Posted on 09/30/2012 11:43:58 AM PDT by Steelfish
Off-Color Remark Lands Ice Cream Maker In Hot Water By Ben Popken
The CEO of a 100-year old Montana ice cream maker has offered to resign after he made what was perceived to be a racist remark on the company's Facebook wall.
The brouhaha began when a self-identified Muslim customer asked on the Facebook page if the Wilcoxson Ice Cream contained pork in the gelatin used to make it.
“We don't deliver outside of Montana, certainly not Pakistan,” CEO Matt Shaeffer wrote back.
The customer replied that the comment was “rude” for assuming he lived in Pakistan. Underneath the customer's name on Facebook it says that he lives in Sheridan, Wyo., an area to which the wholesale ice cream maker does deliver.
Shaeffer told NBC News he is sorry for what happened. “It was never intended to offend,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bottomline.nbcnews.com ...
It doesn’t take much to offend the followers of Mohammad. I’ve really had enough of their whining. It’s getting old.
You think the guy was rude buy your ice cream elsewhere.
Otherwise STFU and grow some skin..
Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an “enemy of the people” (video 26:00)
>> The customer replied that the comment was rude for assuming he lived in Pakistan.
So who’s the “racist”?
ESAD, all you wannabe arbiters of speech.
Guy can’t take a joke and the Media sees this as a national news event?
Get over yourselves guys.
I grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home in the 1950s & 60s. My mother was constantly calling companies to find out if their products contained pork or other nonkosher ingredients. Is Judaism an "alien culture" that clashes with "western civilization"?
LOL, drama queen much?
Try to stay on topic and lay off the victim stuff.
When did Islam become a race?
I think you missed the point that the question essentially asked whether the product is kosher.
Now this story has got me seriously wondering how ice cream with bacon would taste. Good, I think! :)
Yes, but New Jersey made up for that by opening Custer stands all over the place.
Post 47 was to a whiny drama queen, playing at being a victim.
The executive’s flippant remark was to a guy that he thought was posting from Pakistan, about his ice cream that never leaves Montana.
Your remark that the man from Pakistan was asking if it is “Kosher’ is probably a bigger, more deliberate insult to someone that we are guessing is Muslim, my guess is that he was asking if it was acceptable by rules of the Quran, if it is Halal.
I don’t think muslims should be treated with the same respect as your dear Jewish mother.
Nope but Jewish law does not bar the consumption of gelatin even from pig.
I was going to mention that.
This is from ehow—”Kosher practice, however, allows the consumption of gelatin from any source, including pig bones, whereas in halal cooking, gelatin derived from swine is not a permissible ingredient.”
This is from Mile Chai—”Gelatin; A controversial topic is the status of gelatin. This substance comes from the processed bones of animals. If the source of gelatin is a kosher animal that was properly slaughtered according to Jewish law, then such gelatin is considered kosher by all Jews. All other gelatin is usually considered treif (non-kosher). However, a number of prominent rabbinic authorities have noted that gelatin undergoes such extensive processing and chemical changes that it no longer has the status of meat, and as such may be considered pareve and kosher. Most Conservative Jews, and a significant minority of Israeli Orthodox Jews, accept that all gelatin is kosher.”
For the kosher consumer, gelatin must indeed be kosher.
As in all questions of kosher, there are different standards applied by different authorities, and one should consult one’s usual authority if a question arises.
...The question is: Can gelatin from non-kosher sources be permitted? Although cows that were not ritually slaughtered, and, of course, pigs, are certainly not kosher, some rabbis were lenient in allowing products that had very small amounts of gelatin added. This is because they felt that the gelatin extraction process caused the skins and bones to be sufficiently denatured, to the point that they are no longer considered food.
This is not the mainstream position. It has been rejected by every major kosher certifying agency. Indeed, equipment that processed gelatin products might need kosherization, depending on the nature of the contact between the equipment and the product...
I have very educated siblings who think that way. I'm embarrassed to say I am related to them.
Or the Pelosi response, “You have to buy it to find out what’s in it.”
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