You Swallow These Invisible Shrimp With Every Gulp of NYC Tap Water [Violates Kosher Laws?]

Gizmodo ^ | 31 August 2010 | Gizmodo

[James C. Bennett]

New York's water is delicious—and filled with tiny crustaceans called "copepods". (Making it possibly not kosher.) H&E stain the water and put it under a microscope and you'll find these little guys. Crunchy closeup after the jump.

Delicious!

(And completely harmless. Copepods are even known to eat mosquito larvae, so don't think of them as invisible shrimp that are caught in your teeth—think of them as invisible shrimp who make NYC tap water taste fantastic. Like fantastic, quenching shrimp juice.)

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[screaminsunshine]

If you live there boil the water. It will kill the shrimp.

[Riley]

I lived in NYC for a time, the tapwater isn’t bad at all.

As for the kosher/halal/whatever aspect of it- I think that the Lord expects you to do your best, and not more than that.

[999replies]

Have they invented a grill that small yet?

[King Moonracer]

It would have been really cool if in the old Torah it said “Though shalt not eat microscopic shrimp”, but I guess it didn’t.

[Don Corleone]

The only tap water in which you can stand a spoon.

[RingerSIX]

When it rains, Los Angeles makes its own gravy!

[Orange1998]

lol

[JerseyHighlander]

First they tax the sliced bagel with a schmear, now they dictate that the water used to make NYC bagels is treyf!

Time to take to the streets!

[paulycy]

[oneamericanvoice]

Not so! The rain here is so nice (and rare) that people go outside to stand in it. But beware driving when it rains. They think it means go faster.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Copepods? In the old days, you’d get a piece of a Mafia victim in your water. Now that was not Kosher unless it was Mickey Cohen or Meyer Lansky.

[Lazlo in PA]

Just an excuse for NYC to serve only water at their homeless shelters. Very nutritious.

[central_va]

Yeah, they feed on larva-ah, never mind. NY water is clean and safe. Move along, nothing to see here.

[doc1019]

Boiling the water will not make the water Kosher, it will only cook the shrimp. LOL!

[tanuki]

Hmmm.... Maybe that’s why pizza doesn’t taste the same anywhere else.

[screaminsunshine]

Needed protine during the coming Obama food riots.

[Larry Lucido]

You ever try to take the shells off these? Damn near impossible!

[MarkL]

It would have been really cool if in the old Torah it said “Though shalt not eat microscopic shrimp”, but I guess it didn’t.

Given that, would bacteria be considered "meat" according to Kashruth laws? If so, that would make yogurt unkosher...

And something I've never understood... Why chicken is considered "meat," while fish is considered "parve." You can't have milk in the same meal as chicken, but you can use eggs in the same recipe. I just don't get it. Then again, I don't keep kosher.

Mark

[Viking2002]

Even worse, how do you make the coconut batter for them?

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