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Best product to IMPORT from Israel or Europe ?

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Chloe

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 1:01 am

esteec wrote:

Hi,

I gotta step in here! we are the ONLY (it's an exclusive contract) importers of Tnuva to the West Coast.
Just this past year we brought in tons of yogurts and cottage cheese that were previously barred from US import. The reason you can't get it in NY is that the type of dairy, called "Grade A" is protected by the dairy union. Serioudly. So they can't import it legally.

A law changed in California allowing us to import "Grade A" stuff over here.
So, West Coast Israelis can rejoice.

Are you saying that we shouldn't be able to get any Tnuva products in NY?

↑ ewa-jo ↓

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 1:05 am

freidasima wrote:

Well as I don't use mayo ever I can't join the debate but I also can't think of anything we have here in EY which is worth bringing to the US that they don't have there already or even better.

I can however think of a few things they have in the USA that you can't get here...decent pickles and gherkins, decent soft doughnuts with powdered sugar or cinammon topping, decent ice cream, and decent puddings such as vanilla or tapioca. However for me they are all in the past...I'm not allowed to eat any of them anymore unless I make them at home totally fatless and without anything processed or dairy...oh well...enjoy while you are young kiddos, you never know what is ahead...

They have fresh American-style donuts here now... http://www.donuts.co.il/

Aldo Ice Cream on Emek Refaim bakes them in Jerusalem.

(sorry you can't eat them, but if you wanted to buy some as a gift for someone...)

Ronit ↓

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 1:08 am

My parents used to bring back thommy mayo & dove deoderant whenever they traveled to Europe. Some type of instant tea too. I forgot the name.

I like that thommy comes in a tube, because you can squeze it out on the plate & it looks pretty. Like when you use a decorating tip.

↑ JollyMommy

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 1:13 am

Chloe wrote:

esteec wrote:

Are you saying that we shouldn't be able to get any Tnuva products in NY?

it depends on what "Grade" of dairy, hard cheese is NOT Grade A. Grade A includes yogurt, milk, cottage cheese, and sour cream.
We had to work with the FDA for a few years to get Tnuva into California, but NY laws are stricter and the odds of legal Grade A stuff on the east coast is slim.

So, we have Tnuva cottage cheese over here, but you won't find it in NY

↑ DrMom ↓

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 4:49 am

MaBelleVie wrote:

DrMom wrote:

MaBelleVie wrote:

Sarahd, thanks for elaborating. You're right about people here not buying food without a hechsher on the packaging- its not really on their radar.

I don't doubt the kashrus of thomy- I think people don't realize how much stricter the rabbanim in Europe are when allowing an item to be put on the list, vs the relative laxity when institutions like the ou here give a hechsher. I'm not putting down the ou, just saying that the standards for items on the list in Europe are a lot higher than most here.

Did the OU give Thomy a hecsher? If not, then to what specifically are you referring? Question

Sorry if I wasn't clear (on a Monday morning Wink

). No, the OU does not certify Thomy. I was comparing the general standards for kashrus in Europe to the standards applied by American hashgachos such as the OU. In other words, the Rabbanim who compile the Swiss kosher list are much stricter than many of the rabbanim who give hechsherim here in the States.

For example, Thomy is considered kosher despite a non-kosher ingredient, which is batel beshishim. The OU allows far greater leniencies on kosher products.

Hmmm... well if everyone considers it kosher and is willing to eat it, then whether any particular agency will grant it a hashgacha seems like a completely academic discussion (to me, anyway).

And unless you know that the OU does indeed grant hecshers to products with trace ingredients of treif purposely added it, then how can you claim they are lax on this matter? (still confused)

BTW, I looked found the ingredient list for Thomy. I assume the brandy vinegar is the problem.
http://www.europeanmarketonlin......html

↑ freidasima

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 4:57 am

Sarahd age gives you chances for all sorts of things...with me it was gallstones that required me to lose my whole gall bladder and I was one of the unlucky ones who after the operation can't eat any fat...

Ewa-jo thanks for the heads up on the donuts! From the picture they look like the other kind though, the dunkin donuts kind not the cake kind (think entenmans)...but who cares I can't eat them anyhow, although I'm salivating from the picture...

↑ ewa-jo

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 5:11 am

freidasima wrote:

They have Entenmans here... I know you can get them in the frozen foods section of Super Hamoshava on Emek Refaim in Jerusalem. They're pricey, but that's the deal with any imported products.

I'm not 100%, but I think Mr.Donuts also makes cake donuts.

If I had a pile of gold that fell from the sky, I would buy a Krispy Kreme franchise and build one beside my apartment building so I could always have hot KK glazed donuts.

shabbatiscoming ↓

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 5:21 am

well, almost everyone has been mentioning food products or footwear, but when my mother comes to israel from south africa, she always, without fail Smile

always goes to a ahava store for her special creams (something like 4 or 5 age defying creams).

mandksima

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 5:24 am

Yes, they sell Entenman's here, I've seen frozen boxes for 50 shekels at Meatland in Raanana. B"H, I don't care for that brand and would love CY Dunkin Donuts here, although I'd never pay extravagantly for them.

I don't have much to add to this thread. I send some items to the States but not many, mostly they send stuff my way. I tend to send stuff they can get there but is more expensive or harder to find OOT. Stuff like baking papers, cut and pre-folded, CY Dolce de leche, white pareve "chocolate" chips, tichels/scarves, kipot, tzitzit, tec. Oh, AVAHA foot cream I buy for my MIL, here it is much cheaper bought in the kupat cholim pharmacy and it is great stuff. They sell it in the US for 3-4 times as much. Some people like the aluminum tins that are English cake size, long and thin, that I've never seen in the US but maybe they've imported by now.

So, I can't think of a single thing that would be worth it to import save the great cheeses already mentioned.

Oh that's funny, Shabbat, just saw you wrote about Ahava creams too.

↑ zipporah ↓

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 5:29 am

shabbatiscoming wrote:

well, almost everyone has been mentioning food products or footwear, but when my mother comes to israel from south africa, she always, without fail Smile

always goes to a ahava store for her special creams (something like 4 or 5 age defying creams).

I thought we just shipped out Israelis to sell them at the malls... that is seasonal though... Twisted Evil

↑ shabbatiscoming ↓

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 5:32 am

zipporah wrote:

shabbatiscoming wrote:

well, almost everyone has been mentioning food products or footwear, but when my mother comes to israel from south africa, she always, without fail Smile

always goes to a ahava store for her special creams (something like 4 or 5 age defying creams).

I thought we just shipped out Israelis to sell them at the malls... that is seasonal though... Twisted Evil

what is seasonal? buyign cream? my mother in law buys them whenever she comes to israel, fall, winter, spring and summer, no difference Smile

↑ DrMom ↓

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 5:44 am

No, the Israelis in malls are seasonal.

↑ shabbatiscoming ↓

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 5:49 am

DrMom wrote:

No, the Israelis in malls are seasonal.

ah got it. I dont think that there are those seasonal israelis where my mother in law lives.

↑ zipporah ↓

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 5:54 am

shabbatiscoming wrote:

DrMom wrote:

No, the Israelis in malls are seasonal.

ah got it. I dont think that there are those seasonal israelis where my mother in law lives.

Well, now she knows what she can import, anyway. LOL

↑ cassandra ↓

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 6:14 am

zipporah wrote:

shabbatiscoming wrote:

well, almost everyone has been mentioning food products or footwear, but when my mother comes to israel from south africa, she always, without fail Smile

always goes to a ahava store for her special creams (something like 4 or 5 age defying creams).

I thought we just shipped out Israelis to sell them at the malls... that is seasonal though... Twisted Evil

In my mall in the States they were there year round...

Dunkin Donuts was in Israel ten years ago. It failed, like most other similar ventures do.

↑ shabbatiscoming

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 6:26 am

zipporah wrote:

shabbatiscoming wrote:

DrMom wrote:

No, the Israelis in malls are seasonal.

ah got it. I dont think that there are those seasonal israelis where my mother in law lives.

Well, now she knows what she can import, anyway. LOL

Ill let her know Wink

↑ sarahd ↓

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 7:29 am

DrMom wrote:

BTW, I looked found the ingredient list for Thomy. I assume the brandy vinegar is the problem.
http://www.europeanmarketonlin......html

Points for effort, DrMom, but no cigar. Smile

That mayonnaise is not kosher. The only kosher Thomy mayonnaise is mayonnaise á la française, which doesn't have brandy vinegar (which in any case in the mayonnaise you looked up is more than 2% of the total content.) I don't know what the problem ingredient is.

energy11

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 7:49 am

Can't wait to get my hand on some of this mayo!!

Do you know of any other product with the status of Thomy mayo in regards to the non-kosher secret ingredient? Wink

Just curious..

↑ DrMom ↓

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 8:03 am

Oooh, what a great kashrut trivia question...

caringarden

Tue, Feb 22 2011, 10:03 am

My sister sent me "kugel kal" which I have never seen here in the US

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