the "goyische" taste of margarine

chocolate moose

Tue, Jan 02 2007, 3:51 pm

FIL's wife uses margarine instead of oil in her potat kugel and it tastes, well, goyische to me!

anyone else think this way?

Marion

Tue, Jan 02 2007, 4:09 pm

If she hadn't told you, would you have been able to taste the difference? I actually have several kugel recipes that call for a tablespoon of margarine, including the one that's the favourite around here. What's "non jewish" about margarine?

greenfire

Tue, Jan 02 2007, 4:13 pm

eeww - don't like margarine or butter - won't even have it in my house (kids think I'm crazy) - but what does that have to do w/non jewish. I make mine w/olive oil - healthier and tastier

Flowerchild

Tue, Jan 02 2007, 4:21 pm

margarine is horrible it has so much saturated fat.

are you saying that margarine is non jewish because it resembles butter? like having fake cheeze on top of meat?

chocolate moose

Tue, Jan 02 2007, 4:27 pm

If it were a tablespooon, okay, but it's not. It was like a whole stick and the kugel was even yellowy from it . . .

I think Lily got it, like a meat and cheese thing . . . but not a good meat and cheese thing!

mimsy7420

Tue, Jan 02 2007, 4:28 pm

I'm not a fan of margarine either, but I dont get how margarine in a kugel makes it non jewish tasting.

yoyosma

Tue, Jan 02 2007, 4:28 pm

I make a kugel that calls for a stick of margarine. I dont know if that is non jewish.

chocolate moose

Tue, Jan 02 2007, 4:50 pm

In noodle kugel, okay, but this was potato....anyway, we all have different tastes so that's okay.

TzenaRena

Wed, Jan 03 2007, 3:30 am

All my kugel recipes call for oil, like a half cup. or a whole cup for a very large kugel.

amother

Wed, Jan 03 2007, 5:10 am

saying that something is "non jewish" tasting, especially in a derogatory way, is a thoughtless and very rude thing to say.

chocolate moose

Wed, Jan 03 2007, 10:02 am

I only told you all, not her.........

amother

Wed, Jan 03 2007, 10:33 am

[quote="chocolate moose"]I only told you all, not her.........[/quote]

huh?

chocolate moose

Wed, Jan 03 2007, 10:58 am

I will restate.

FIL's wife raved about several new recipes she had. She emailed them to me, and I tried them. (I'm sure I posted this before).

Not only were they not our taste, the potato kugel had a goyische taste, in our opinion (not just mine, DH's too.)

I thanked her and told her we'd try them. Nothing more, and she never asked.

There is no way she'd find out our real thoughts, unless one of you tells her, lol!

lubcoralsprings

Wed, Jan 03 2007, 11:09 am

I use margerine. I cut it into small squares and place it all over the kugel. Whenever I make the kugel, which is rare because it's fattening, I get rants and raves about how good it is.

shoy18

Wed, Jan 03 2007, 11:11 am

You must be "Goyische" lubcoralsprings....LOL....

chocolate moose

Wed, Jan 03 2007, 11:19 am

To each his own, I guess . . . . .

healthymama

Wed, Jan 03 2007, 1:15 pm

We went to a kosher chinese restaraunt last night. The food tasted really non jewish... chinese- non jewish to be specific. Yum !

cindy324

Wed, Jan 03 2007, 2:30 pm

HMM...I've heard of heimishe taste, but goyische taste? What does that taste like?

chocolate moose

Wed, Jan 03 2007, 2:48 pm

I don't mean a cheeseburger taste, b/c that goes togeether (obv not in the boshor vecholov sense), or even a sausage or bacon taste, b/c that's also a specific taste/small that you can make Kosher - I mean the "milchig" potato kugel taste is goyische to me!

TzenaRena

Wed, Jan 03 2007, 4:19 pm

Some margarines ARE milchig. it's important to be aware of that. Others are made on dairy equipment. Make sure the one you buy is totally parve. Maybe that's a point this thread can make.