So much for "the Jewish lobby" controlling everything....

[Pseudolus]

Trader Joe’s pareve chocolate chips go dairy
May 18, 2012
(JTA) -- Trader Joe's semi-sweet chocolate chips will no longer be certified nondairy.

OK-Certification would no longer be able to certify the products as pareve because of a change in the supplier's production procedure, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal reported this week.

In a statement, Trader Joe's said the ingredients have not changed and the chips will continue to be made on equipment dedicated to nondairy chocolate.

The bagging process, however, has changed, with the supplier now using a dry cleaning procedure for a machine that also packages milk chocolate products.

These changes "triggered the need for an FDA regulated, dairy-related allergen statement, and this in turn brought about a change in the Kosher certification for our item -- going from ‘Kosher Parve’ to ‘Kosher Dairy,’ ” the statement read.

As a result, OK Kosher said supervising rabbis can no longer guarantee that errant milk chocolate won't be in the semi-sweet bags.

“It’s just really sad,” said Shana Fishman, a Beverlywood, Calif., mother of four who bought 20 bags of chocolate chips at Trader Joe’s in West Hollywood told the Jewish Journal.

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012...-so-trader-joe

[Jack]

:alf:

[Pseudolus]

I put my commentary right there in the subject line. I'm cool like (but not exclusively) that.

[Jack]

I guess the intersection of Jewish fundamentalists and Trader Joes shoppers must be huge.

[Jack]

Originally Posted by Pseudolus

I put my commentary right there in the subject line. I'm cool like (but not exclusively) that.

Actually it's the WB Yeats allusion in your location that demonstrates your coolness.

[phoebe]

Originally Posted by Jack

I guess the intersection of Jewish fundamentalists and Trader Joes shoppers must be huge.

Probably. I heard about this last night from a friend who works at Trader Joes. He says they've been selling cases and cases of the old chips.

[Jack]

Originally Posted by phoebe

Probably. I heard about this last night from a friend who works at Trader Joes. He says they've been selling cases and cases of the old chips.

I was kidding, really? I'm pretty sure I've bought frozen carnitas enchiladas there. Pretty sure the fundamentalists would view this as verboten.

[Jack]

Trader Joes needs to bring back the Thai peanut sauce. They have an Asian Peanut Salad dressing that's pretty good but not quite the same.

Trader Joe's oderless fish oil is a great product. No fish burps.

Unfortunately in Pennsyltuckey they don't sell beer and wine in the stores.

[SamTheEagle]

So this is an issue for Jews who make chocolate covered hamburgers or what?

[phoebe]

It's an issue for Jews who want to serve chocolate chip cookies after supper, if supper included meat.