Originally Posted by
fisharmor
There used to be *two* labels for Kosher foods - one marked K and another that is a U with an O around it.
Just the other day I was pointing this out to my daughter, and started pulling things out of the cupboard to try to find the K label, and I couldn't find one.
I've known for about 15 years that the organization responsible for certifying the "K" were less restrictive than the O-U people.
Well it turns out that not only did the market invent these - and let's be honest, how many people are shopping Kosher to begin with (hint: it's a tiny fraction of the people who live in a building) - not only did the market come up with these, but the market favored the one that worked better, and apparently the other one became disused.
Nassim Taleb has some interesting things to say on that very subject ...
FTA: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...small-minority [h/t Swordsmyth]
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This example of complexity hit me, ironically, as I was attending the New England Complex Systems institute summer barbecue. As the hosts were setting up the table and unpacking the drinks, a friend who was observant and only ate Kosher dropped by to say hello. I offered him a glass of that type of yellow sugared water with citric acid people sometimes call lemonade, almost certain that he would reject it owing to his dietary laws. He didn’t. He drank the liquid called lemonade, and another Kosher person commented: “liquids around here are Kosher”. We looked at the carton container. There was a fine print: a tiny symbol, a U inside a circle, indicating that it was Kosher. The symbol will be detected by those who need to know and look for the minuscule print. As to others, like myself, I had been speaking prose all these years without knowing, drinking Kosher liquids without knowing they were Kosher liquids.
A strange idea hit me. The Kosher population represents less than three tenth of a percent of the residents of the United States. Yet, it appears that almost all drinks are Kosher. Why?
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