But what are they? Are they chickens? Are they rabbits? Or are they nisht a hen, nisht a hare? And are they kosher, and will they be served at next week's Feast Of Exotic Curiosities? Is it a sin to kill a Muppet-bird? Stay tuned to find out!
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
To Kill A Muppet-Bird
Here are some of the newest creatures at The Biblical Museum of Natural History:
But what are they? Are they chickens? Are they rabbits? Or are they nisht a hen, nisht a hare? And are they kosher, and will they be served at next week's Feast Of Exotic Curiosities? Is it a sin to kill a Muppet-bird? Stay tuned to find out!
But what are they? Are they chickens? Are they rabbits? Or are they nisht a hen, nisht a hare? And are they kosher, and will they be served at next week's Feast Of Exotic Curiosities? Is it a sin to kill a Muppet-bird? Stay tuned to find out!
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Hahahahaha I see what you did there
ReplyDeleteI got to play with some of these at a local farm in the Catskills. They're adorable.
ReplyDelete1) It's Aseres Y'Mei Teshuvah, so absolutely nobody should even think of cheating by using google image search.
ReplyDelete2) Excellent demonstration of the argument in your previous posts (sorry, I cheated).
3) Would you eat your pets just because they are kosher???
"Are they chickens? Are they rabbits? Or are they nisht a hen, nisht a hare?"
ReplyDeleteGreatest line of this entire website.
Agreed.
DeleteThat is a silkie bird,and I beileve since it has a fifth toe and doesn't have a mesorah Rabbaniom have considered forbidden for consumption.
ReplyDeleteYet it is a chicken and interfertile with other chicken breeds, which brings the problem into sharp focus.
DeleteNot everyone agrees. Some (many) think, with good reason, that it is a chicken and permissible to eat. Personally, I could never eat anything so cute and cuddly, especially with black flesh.
DeleteI shechted and ate some a silkie last year.
ReplyDeleteA bird?
ReplyDeleteAbsurd
Perhaps
It snaps.
Maybe a toy
Oh joy!
Don't keep them in your venue
Just to put them on your menu --
And please send away the mother
If you plan to eat the other.
That amazing looking critter
Probably tastes very bitter.
And if indeed it is a muppet
Don’t sup it,
Just pass the lettuce --
Please.
MKF
Are they Silkies chicken? eventually this mutation may occur in all breeds but the Asian silkies are more known, and may also harbor polydactyly (5 toes) .
ReplyDeletehttp://www.torahway.co.uk/Search/Watch/3082
ReplyDeleteat 16:40 a silkie brought into shiur of dayan westhrim
and he doesn't like it for kashrus; he seems to have a take like Rav Landau shlit'a.
Deletesilkie does not have 4 simanim. so both sides would forbid it.
DeleteThat is not true.
Deletedo not follow . what is not true? that silkie does not have 4 simanim. ?
Deleteso silkie has 4 simanim ?
Silkie has crop, extra toe, peelable gizzard, and is not Dores.
Deletewhat do you say to minchas yitzchok who says 2 extra toes is like zero ( at 28 min in shiur) ?
DeleteI say it's a mistake. The extra toe is a simple genetic mutation that can happen with any chicken (as he acknowledges) and silkies were simply selected to maintain that mutation. No different than if you were to selectively breed mutated cows with fused hooves.
DeleteWell, if they are hares, someone should write a book about whether they have only one Kosher sign and......oh, wait
ReplyDeleteI notice the chicken breed controversy came and went already. That was quick. But worry not - the next chumra-paranoia fad should appear any day now . . . religious boredom will do that.
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