{"id":3002,"date":"2008-12-02T08:47:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T12:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2008-12-02T08:47:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T12:47:33","slug":"lost-in-the-supermarket-the-imitations-of-crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lost-in-the-supermarket-the-imitations-of-crab","title":{"rendered":"Lost in the Supermarket: The Imitations of Crab"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this week’s installment of Lost in the Supermarket, I thought I’d hearken back to my doubleplusunkosher<\/a> post by offering up . . . imitation crabmeat!<\/p>\n

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Of course, it begs the question as to whether something this artificial is actually traife. As opposed to just a Bad Idea.<\/p>\n

This week, you get a bonus pic! It doesn’t come from a supermarket, so it doesn’t warrant its own post. However, I couldn’t resist snapping a pic of . . . a kosher hot sandwich vending machine?<\/p>\n

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I found this one up at an outlet mall<\/a> in New York state. My wife & I will only go there on a Saturday morning, before the busloads of New Yorkers arrive and when the hasidic contingent has to stay home for shabbat. Otherwise, it’s like a cross of Spanish Harlem, the Axis powers, and Samaria up there.<\/p>\n

See the whole Lost in the Supermarket<\/a> series<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For this week’s installment of Lost in the Supermarket, I thought I’d hearken back to my doubleplusunkosher post by offering up . . . imitation crabmeat! Of course, it begs the question as to whether something this artificial is actually traife. As opposed to just a Bad Idea. This week, you get a bonus pic! … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Lost in the Supermarket: The Imitations of Crab”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[379,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-in-the-supermarket","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-Mq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3409,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lost-in-the-supermarket-huskers-do","url_meta":{"origin":3002,"position":0},"title":"Lost in the Supermarket: Huskers Do","author":"Gil","date":"February 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Aw, shucks! 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