#We don't talk about Netherlandian Jews

[hyperpotamianarch]

I've never heard of Chareidim not mixing fish and milk. And we're not that much lactose intolerant! Like, in my immediate family only my mother and sister have strong reactions, and even they drink milk occasionally!

Adding to that, Sefaradim wait 6 hours between meat and dairy (as do most Ashkenazim, really, but I'm a Yekke and I wait 3, so yay!), and are more prone to being stricter on signs for a hole in the lungs of a slaughtered cow, which makes meat more expensive.

No, I'm not grasping at straw here, how dare you insinuate that?! More seriously, though, every tradition has ups and downs. Honestly, the "Bechezkat" laws aren't that bad - from what I know, they just don't allow you to eat the thing cooked in a pot/oven that was used for meat/dairy in the last 24 hours with dairy/meat, respectively. There's also Hag'alat Kelim, which is a story unto itself. To be honest, I don't remember all the rules for that all that well - possibly because I'm not running a household.

i love learning more abt sephardic kashrut rulings bc it’s always stuff that would give my ashkenazi roommate an aneurism like what do u mean pasta is pareve no matter what pot u make it in bc it’s the water cooking it and not the pot. glass doesn’t become treif so you just need to wash it with soap and water. use the dishwasher for meat and milk bc the process of cleaning the dishes makes the scraps no longer food and therefore does not treif the dishes, which are glass so they can’t get treif’ed anyway. i love it.