Non-Kosher Hot Dog Incites Rage At Jewish Eatery
It was an all-out frankfurter frenzy this week at a popular Jewish restaurant in Brooklyn, as a certain hot dog caused a near-riot.
It's not what you would expect: a worker in a NYC eatery caught on tape fending off a group of Jewish patrons with an electric knife.
"I was petrified - stuff was going through my mind," a patron who didn't want his name used said. "I want to live. I don't want to get stabbed for a hot dog."
The long-time patron says the chaos broke out when he and a rabbi noticed the frankfurters on the grill were non-Kosher, in a restaurant that's supposed to be dishing out the Kosher variety.
"The package didn't look Kosher," the patron said. "It was the last piece in the package."
Some customers were quick to defend the worker, who was surrounded by, according to some witnesses, a hundred enraged people.
"He just got angry," the patron said. "He wasn't about to do anything to the guys."
The rabbi, who originally certified the Shawarma King restaurant Kosher, has written a letter to the community in a Jewish newspaper. In the letter, he calls the frankfurter mix-up a "terrible mistake."
"It was a one-time incident," Borough Park resident Yosi Stern, who translated the Yiddish letter for CBS 2, said. "They caught it before it was even served to the consumers."
The rabbi tells the community that a worker was sent out to buy hot dogs, and that he went to the wrong market and bought non-Kosher hot dogs.
Neighbors say the owner is an honest man.
"He's a very religious man," one neighbor says. "He studies every morning, and he's not the type of guy to fool people."
The popular spot on 13th Avenue was shut down for several days as rabbis examined the premises for non-Kosher food, and threw out equipment that came in contact with the uncertified meat.
Customers, and the restaurant's owner, say they're hoping similar incidents don't come up in the future.
The restaurant's owner says that, in addition to throwing out equipment, utensils were cleansed with a flame to purge any pieces of the non-Kosher food.
Perhaps this will be followed by weeks of burning cars all over the metro area, and riots in Newton and Brookline, Massachusetts.
4 comments:
This could cause outrage amongst the Brooklyn 'youth'. That offending obviously gentile market will surely be set to the torch by righteously indignant youths. Gentile women who venture anywhere near the area do so at their own risk. Of course churches and cemeteries deemed gentile will be desecrated by elements beyond control of the rabbis. Meanwhile the government won't dare send in the police at the risk of further alienating and inciting the youth.
Scratching head. Um, were the sub par weenies past their fresh date or something? Laced with harmful bacteria? Chemical contaminants? Pasty particles of proprietor poo poo? No?
I read an encouraging article yesterday about Israeli Jews being at the forefront of nanotech research and development. Yay Israel! In contrast the fuss here seems, well, wiping-your-arse-with-stones fly-double-dippin' primitive.
I get that the point is to illustrate that not all groups automatically resort to a lynching if their religious sensibilities take an inadvertent noogie. But I think I'll go freshen up with some nice palate cleansing Pat Condell videos now.
Anon... they were not kosher...something akin to serving haram or pork hot dogs at a CAIR BBQ
What? No law suits filed by [J]AIR :) No storming the courts?
No boycotts? No heads rolling?
And they are going to go back there to eat?
Sounds like normal people to me.
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