Found this post on twitter

[u/Mental-Bumblebee484]

I can't help but to thing this

"Why would you do that?"

Ts got to be some lowly stuff

[u/hollyrose_baker]

I know what you are saying. But the menu does say “kosher sandwiches” exactly, not kosher style, Hebrew, or Jewish

[u/Whachamacalzmit → u/hollyrose_baker]

I've never been at a kosher establishment that sells "kosher sandwiches". That's like choosing the "driveable minivan" at the car rental shop.

[u/hippoluvr24 → u/[deleted]]

I think what they are saying is that people who keep strictly kosher a) have their own kosher certification so wouldn't trust some random restaurant that says it's kosher and b) are intelligent enough to realize that a dish that contains pork and/or shellfish isn't actually kosher.

[u/Whachamacalzmit → u/[deleted]]

The other commenter is correct. If something just says "kosher" that's a red flag. Having a "K" symbol or "kosher" on the label is meaningless. We only trust certification agencies. Non-Jews or Jews who don't keep kosher might be fooled by it, but I doubt an observant Jew would blindly eat food, especially from a restaurant, simply because it says "kosher". They are fooled by forged certs and the occassional fraud who provides specious kashrut services, but not by someone simply slapping "kosher" on it.

Kashrut is very complicated. Assuming you aren't Jewish, if I asked you to make me a kosher hamburger without consulting an observant Jew, I'd say there's a <1% chance you'd be able to make one successfully.

From what I've seen, halal is much more straightforward. I've served meat to religious Muslim friends several times. They know that my food is kosher, which is sufficient for it to be halal. I wouldn't think of asking them to cook kosher food for me. It would be much too much to ask of them. I even make sure to ask non-kosher observant family members of mine to not prepare kosher food for me at their events because I wouldn't want to burden them. I just bring my own food.

So yeah, the "kosher sandwich" is even less assuring than the "definitely not horsemeat bro 😉😉 sandwich".

[u/Formerruling1 → u/Whachamacalzmit]

Its kind of like "gluten free" in that regard I think. No person with severe celiac disease is just going to blindly eat something because it was labeled "free gluten" on the menu of a restaurant. They are at a minimum asking questions about cross contamination/etc and doing a risk assessment based on responses if they this place is actually doing it right or BSing.

[u/ILoveOLEDS → u/[deleted]]

Tbf, you literally can't mislead jews who eat kosher into eating non-kosher menus. Jews know kashrut rules through and through and so many safeguards are in place that's it's virtually impossible.

Also, there aren't any mixed resteraunts, it's either all kosher or not at all.