What foods cant jewish people eat?
It is worth remembering that, from time to time, foods previously unknown to Jews come about – the first one we can know about with any certainty is the turkey which was unknown outside America prior to Columbus, long after the laws of kashrut were established. In the case of birds, a decision as to whether or not is is kosher will usually be made according to how it lives and whether it has any similarity to other, already-known birds. In the case of the turkey, it was unfortunate enough to be very similar to a creature known as the fowl of India and as such can be eaten by Jews. Jews have now spread all around the world and may come into contact with foods that they were not previously exposed to, or animals that have not traditionally been widely used in food production may become so – ostrich meat, crocodile meat and others have become widely available in recent years, and unless expressly forbidden (the crocodile is a reptile and therefore definitely not kosher) rabbis will meet a
