Well its darned tough to do, in fact it took me many minutes of stabbing with my ball point pen to rip through the outer layers of thick packaging that kasharus authorities have put onto the Elal meals served. In fact once you get through the outer layer you are greeted by more wrapping, tape and plastic which seems like you are trying to break into a bank or something. In fact it was so painful and tough, especially with my plane induced allergies that I almost gave up, well not really, I just made a video of the madness instead.
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If you want a real challenge, trying opening and eating your meals with a baby on your lap who grabs everything…..
Well, at least you can be sure it really is kosher. W/O the quintuple rapping some evil soul would have smuggled in some shell fish into the meal. O no.
So you opted for the extra kosher kosher meal? We found that the most yummy one was the extra kosher kid’s meal not to be mistaken for the regular kosher kid’s meal or the extra kosher adult meal or the extra kosher VEGETARIAN meal or the regular kosher Adult or the regular kosher vegetarian meal. When you fly in the 9 days and don’t order vegetarian, you get fish (we don’t like fish). Unless you get the stewardess meal which was chicken nuggets! Nice stewardess. Sorry, but my kid who doesn’t eat is not Bar Mitzvah and I will give him chicken nuggets on a 12 hour (18+ hour journey) flight. I think it’s incredible how everyone gets stuff by name because there are so many choices. Ridiculous. Like my husband says: if we all refuse to eat the regular kosher meal, then they will soon outrule it completely and the El Al meals will be completely treif.
Try eating the kosher food at a traif wedding. We needed knives, but they were locked inside. And during the coctails, we were standing and trying to get 5 layers of well-wrapped plastic…
I never have enough room when I open all the wrapping its just gets every where. sometimes I need to borrow the person next to me’s tray. I always look over at other people who dont have the special kosher deluxe meal and they seem to have it easy.
I think all the different hashgachos are a result of a LOT of different rabbi/mashgiach’s with their hand out getting paid for their stamp of approval.
Wouldn’t want Yoely from Villiamsburg to have to eat something certified by a Monroe mashgiach, of course.
Besides the inconvenience, what about the waste? Sso much for tikkun olam eh?
Whats wrong with the regular ElAl meal?
Why did you order kosher food?
All ElAl food is kosher (unless you are one of these that need to say out loud that you eat only mehadrin …)
all elal food is kosher! whats wrong with regular elal meal? what about tikun olam? getting paid for approval! the others have it so easy!
such judgemental whiners!! ever heard of LIVE AND LET LIVE?! some want to eat kosher, some dont want to eat kosher, some want double wrapped, some want trippled wrapped, some want their own home made boiled eggs.. who the @#$ cares?!?!
There was a really funny Seinfeld episode where Elaine somehow gets a kosher meal on a flight and causes a big ruckus.
Dude I did not order anything!!! Everyone got the same thing- I did order an extra few meals for my doggy bag but thats about it.
Live, it matters because of what I said earlier. Kosher should count. If you want to be more stringent, fine, but make an educated decision, because if the demand for regular kosher El Al meals continues to fall, they will serve non-Kosher. We aren’t sheep. We don’t all have to order the Mehadrin. Hesh, they give the Mehadrin to anyone who looks frum, btw. Just like they gave the rating sheets to all the passengers around me who didn’t look frum. I just want to be a passenger when I fly.
Well actually it was a Nefesh Bnefesh chartered flight so everyone got the same thing.
ok
liveandletlive
chill out.
I hope its not too off topic but I need to bring up kosher questions.
Also- how can lox with cream cheese be considered not kosher? (This is one of those don’t ask don’t tell rules because no one wants to really find out if the rambam or Orach Chayim really said this).
Do Matzo balls really be not kosher for passover? Oiy gebracht!
If it produces milk, then why isn’t the chicken breast considered milchik?
Is it considered fleshik or treif if you swallow your fingernails?
Can you eat and spit out food all day long on Yom Kippur or is there some kind of rule (assuming if you never swallow it). Do you say a bracha or bench if this were to be permissible.
Do any orthodox rabbis sanction that microwaves change the molecules to a new substance, so you can eat any food that is cooked in it such as bacon or ham? Can you eat a cow that was fed ham? What about kishka from an animal still digesting ham? I just know there is a loophole somewhere.
Elal sounds more like a restaurant. On most domestic flights, meals were cancelled years ago, you’ll be lucky to find imported beer at $6 a can (no bottles allowed).
I did get a meal on a Swissair flight to Israel about 5 years ago, I was surprised that it was edible.
Face it, airplaines are not meant to be 5 star gourmet restaurants. I personally think the meals are more of an insult, I just wish that US customs and DOHS would allow you to bring your own meat, fruits and drinks on the plane.
Of course my kids love plane trips, they get to eat junk all day.
A few years ago my Dad was flying out on business during chol hamoed pesach – Once he got through his 15 layers of foil and plastic, what did he see? A challah bun! The airline (ELAL!!)ran him dizzy with the kosher options and then gave him a chametz meal!
I love watching your videos because the people around you always seem to ignore you and just go about their business. No one ever stops to stare at the crazy guy talking out loud to his videocamera. (The woman next to you on the airplane just went on eating, totally oblivious to your rant.)
One time I sat next to Dr. Lander or Landers College fame in First Class on a flight from JFK to LAX. His secretary forgot to order him a kosher meal so I totally offered him my shrink wrapped dessert. He said no. I think he was holding out for the Haagan Daas sundaes. American Airlines rules!
Raizy- my videos amongst frummies I can see them all staring at me like I’m nuts. But in this videos I think everyone was focusing on trying extract food from the shrink wrap
Cute idea, but are you sure there was no pork in there?
the meals are pain in the asses to open, but to top it off after you put all the effort into opening it the meal tastes like crap. the best meal out here is delta, they have good shnitzel meals