#i know there’s the whole thing about how women are automatically more connected to gd and that’s why judaism passes through them

[ripley-ryan]

i’ve been keeping kosher since i was like ten but one thing i do really miss and i don’t think i’ll ever get over is that like dried little shredded pork bits??

this stuff. as a kid sometimes id either hang out with my friend at her grandmas or hang out at her home and her grandma would be there and whenever someone made rice this would be there and it was so good. literally going kosher this was the hardest thing to give up

#personal #no my dad didn’t really raise me or my siblings kosher #my dad was fairly lax about pork for two reasons #one. he really fucking liked pepperoni pizza and just assumed it was made with beef well into his 30s #he ended up developing a ‘pizza exception’ where he would allow himself to eat pepperoni and/or sausage on pizza with cheese #two. he believed that agricultural practices had improved over the last few thousand years and that the pork ban had been created mostly #because back then it was more unsafe to eat them as they tended to be unclean as it was to eat other livestock #that’s also why i was still raised jewish despite being patrilineal (aside from the obvious bit where we aren’t orthodox) #because his reasoning was that back in the day you didn’t really know for sure who the baby’s father was so because you had no idea if the #father was a jew or not then you just wouldn’t count that and would only go through the mother who you can literally confirm the baby is #related to #and for me well. we only knew for sure i was blood related to my father #i know there’s the whole thing about how women are automatically more connected to gd and that’s why judaism passes through them #but all traditions are rooted in some degree of logic #anyways #so i wasn’t actually entirely raised kosher because my dad approached kashrut laws from a logic perspective #which id argue is inherently more jewish than just blindly following those rules but i digress #anyways so when i went kosher it was like okay cool and everyone was cool with it #my dad doesn’t eat bacon or pork the majority of the time he only eats it for his ‘pizza exception’ so the house was mostly kosher anyways #because really who was making a pizza at home. so that was all fine #but i still really fucking miss that pork stuff with my rice