Trump Vodka is not Kosher - seriously - pulled from shelves

[malaise]

http://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2017/01/trump-vodka-pulled-from-israeli-retailers/
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Bottles of Donald Trump’s defunct vodka brand have been pulled from shelves in Israel after the country’s Chief Rabbinate found them to be non-compliant with kosher regulations.
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Founded by the US president elect Donald Trump, Trump Vodka is now only sold in Israel

The Times of Israel reports that the Chief Rabbinate of Israel – the supreme authority for Judaism in the country – ordered a batch of Trump Vodka to be pulled from supermarket shelves, claiming the bottles had been imported without proper kosher licensing.

While the bottles bear the labels of both the Badatz Igud Rabbonim and Israeli Chief Rabbinate, they did not receive the stamp of the Rabbinate’s import division.

In order to be deemed kosher, products imported into Israel must bear the label of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s import unit, which communicates between foreign and domestic kashrut authorities.

Launched in 2005, Trump Vodka was discontinued in the US six years later following poor sales. The brand, which was marketed with the slogan ‘Success Distilled’, is now only sold in Israel.

In 2015, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel claimed that “vast quantities” of the world’s biggest Scotch brand, Johnnie Walker, were not certified as kosher and so revoked the kosher certification of the brand’s major Israeli importer.
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Trying to keep a straight face

[barbtries]

1. not me

fuck him.

[malaise]

2. OK then

[Gothmog]

3. This is amusing

[cloudbase]

4. It's not that it's not kosher,

it's that they haven't paid off the kosher nostra.

There's nothing in distilled spirits that would be considered tref.

[Retrograde]

6. I was wondering how it couldn't not be kosher

Vodka being distilled from grains or potatoes - it's essentially just ethanol and water, with maybe some flavors from the original ingredients.

[Cirque du So-What]

8. Could be the casks

Knowing how cheap tRump is, he may have used casks which previously contained wine, violating kosher law. Barring that, he may have been too cheap to properly document that the casks didn't contain anything else. Cost of quality, Cheeto Benito!

[louis-t]

9. No, no..drumpf thought he had to ship it in

'cask-ets'.

[louis-t]

10. I kill me sometimes.

[KamaAina]

7. "kosher nostra" FTW!

[Xolodno]

13. Sadly, I believe you may be right.

There are a number of "certification" organizations. Some will certify you the minute you pay the fee, others demand to inspect the facilities on a regular basis....but after you pay for the trip, fee's etc.

In a number of cases, the only difference between the meat at your local supermarket vs. a kosher one is just the rabbi blessing. But both went down the same processing line.

I consider grass fed, free range and humanely slaughtered animals kosher than one that was penned up, hit with hormones, etc. but was "rabbi blessed".

[milestogo]

5. Failure in a Bottle

[onethatcares]

11. awaiting cheetos' tweet ref this matter

he's said 100 times he has the most kosher vodka in the world. So kosher it's yuuuuuuge.

[malaise]

12. I'm amazed that I did'nt see this in the media last week

Found it my accident