What kind of pizza can Jewish people eat?

Question

Is it just cheese pizza? If they keep kosher, I mean. Or vegetarian? If they don't keep kosher, can they eat beef sausage on pizza or what?

Answer 1

A kosher pizza must be made from only kosher ingredients, and baked in an oven that hasn't been used for non-kosher foods, or for meat. Usually the only place where you're going to find all that is in the house of a kosher-keeping Jew, or a kosher pizzeria.

The laws of kashrus (Jewish dietary practices) forbid us from eating meat and dairy products together. As a result, a kosher pizza won't have any meat on it. Nowadays, fake sausage and pepperoni (usually made from soy or wheat ingredients), some brands of which are kosher-certified, provide a new set of pizza toppings for kosher-keeping Jews to choose from. (Just as a side note, most real pepperoni is made from a combination of beef and pork anyway.)

So, cheese pizza is kosher. And most of your standard non-meat toppings are also kosher. So a kosher pizza could be topped with any of a variety of veggies and kosher-certified meat subsititutes. Also, the separation of meat and dairy doesn't apply to fish, so any kosher species of fish could in theory be used to top a pizza. Anchovies, tuna, and salmon are all kosher.

As for Jews who don't keep kosher, your question of "what can Jewish people eat" isn't really relevant. According to Jewish law, a Jew could only eat a kosher pizza as described above. But a Jew who doesn't keep kosher doesn't follow Jewish law, so I'm sure they would have no qualms about having sausage on their pizza, or ordering a pizza from a non-kosher restaurant.

I hope you find this information helpful.

Note to Annie the Duck: No offense, but if you're not familiar with the laws of kashrut, you probably shouldn't be fielding questions on them. You don't see me going around answering questions on what it's like being The Original Duck, do you? In any event, meat of any kind (fish isn't considered meat according to the dietary laws, but beef and poultry are) is absolutely NOT okay, and would render the pizza treif (not kosher), even if the meat itself was kosher. The only way you could put real meat on a kosher pizza would be if

a) the pizza had no cheese

or

b) the cheese not real cheese, but a was pareve (kosher "neutral," neither meat nor dairy) cheese substitute...

these do exist, but would probably make for a crappy pizza. Better a real cheese pizza with fake meat or no meat, than a pizza with real meat and fake cheese or no cheese.

Answer 2

well, it depends on what kind of jew they are.

normal, everyday jews? whatever pizza they want. theyre probably not kosher, which is their choice.

orthodox or hasidic jews? they would most certainly be kosher and there are several limitations they observe.

i am guessing that unless the pizza place (and i doubt you could ever find one) specifically ran a kosher pizzeria, jews would not eat pizza. its not only about ingredients being put together, its about where and how they were prepared. many jews have different knives, cutting boards, etc. for their meals and they certainly dont eat some things that you and i would eat as everyday things. (scrambled eggs made with milk, bacon, etc.)

IF there was a kosher setting, im guessing jews could/would eat 'white pizza'. oive oil, garlic, maybe onions and tomatos. the only thing would be the cheese and im not sure what the restrictions are on that.

hope that helps.

Answer 3

I ate dinner at Macaroni Grill a while back with some Jewish friends...the kids had cheese pizza. Can't mix meat and cheese...they could have had some veggies on the pizza but no meat of any kind...being kids, they didn't want any veggies. I asked the mom and she said they could have had a meat pizza without cheese too but what's the point of pizza without cheese *smile*.

Come to think of it, my son went to a sock hop at the Jewish Community Center last weekend...they provided pizza for the kids...when I when to grab a few slices for myself, I noticed that all the pizzas were either plain cheese or veggie combos...no meat on any of them!

Answer 4

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HI! I gues you would like to know what kosher food exatly means. So let me try to give you a "short" answer, not enetering much into details. Some of rule what is kosher (alowed) food is given in the Bible (Old Testamnet) and some was decided later, cosed by questions and life conditions Jews had to face during history. One of the rule of kosher kitche is that meat and dairy products are cooked and eaten separately. This also means that a kosher kitchen will have separate dishes for milk, chees, yogurt, and for meals with meat. So a cheezburger or a salami pizza with cheese will not be kosher, as it has both meat and cheese in it in the same time. To prepare kosher meat, an animal has to be killed in a certain way. It has to be without blod. A specially thought rabi has to kill the animal, to make kosher meat. then the meat is kept in solt, and only then it can be consumed. there are certain kind of animals which are not kosher to eat: pig, horse, some fish and sea food, so Jews who eat kosher will not eat them. all kosher fish and eggs are konsidered "parve", which means that they can be eaten any time, with or without milk and meat food. also one who keeps kosher kitchen takes good care of not having any bugs in his food. he/she will wash the vegatables very, very well, or siev the flour. To make kosher bread a special prayer must be read, and a ritual hand washing is done too. Kosher vine means that it is compeltely made by a Jewish person (from growing the grapes to botheling it). This is because bread and wine has special meaning, and it is blessed on Shabath and Holiday meals, as simbol of food and drink received from God. Not all Jews eat kosher, and not all Jews keep kosher rules as I wrote you down. Nowdays, only the ultra religious Jews eat ike that. Some Jews are not this strict any more, keeping these rules only partly or not at all. This was rather a short answer, but I hope that it gave you some clearity about what kosher food is.

Answer 5

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What kind of pizza can Jewish people eat?
Is it just cheese pizza? If they keep kosher, I mean. Or vegetarian? If they don't keep kosher, can they eat beef sausage on pizza or what?

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Any pizza that has only kosher ingredients and does not contain meat and dairy products together.

The best place to find such pizza is at a kosher pizza parlor.


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Answer 8

unless it's parve ( kocher) cheese they can NOT mix cheese and meat together in the same meal. they can have a hamburger but NOT a cheeseburger. of course anything without pork too but....no mixing dairy and meat. i try to remember as - they can't eat together that which is mom & comes from mom - AK milk & meat. there is a 6 hour window.

Answer 9

You eat Kosher foods too . Look on catsup bottles ,canned fish ,mustard jars and you will see a" u " within a circle or a "K" this means that the product was blessed by a Rabbi and is Kosher . Look at ALL your everyday foods . Jews eat everythind you mostly eat .You didn`t know you were Kosher ,now did you ?????

Answer 10

Technically, a Jew can eat whatever he/she wishes, just as anyone else. But if he/she wishest to live his/her religion, then there are things that simply aren't on the menu....

O'course, any form of pork is out (darn, no ham and pineapple!).

I'm not entirely sure what all is in pepperoni, so that may be out because of that.

Vegie would be fine, or anything that was kosher beef.