I’ve heard of kosher imitation crab meat and shrimp. I’ve sprinkled kosher imitation bacon bits on my salad. I grew up eating BLT sandwiches - beef fry (kosher), lettuce and tomato. But when did cooking beans with pork become kosher?

The answer is it never did. Someone at Bush Brothers & Company, makers of Bush’s Best Beans, made a big booboo. Some cans of beans were mislabeled. The oops cans contained the baked beans with pork products but were labeled as vegetarian, bearing the certification (heksher) of the Orthodox Union - OU.

The company recalled the cans, which were said to have been distributed in Florida, and assured the OU that every step possible would be taken to ensure the kashrus of the vegetarian bean products in the future. Since the OU policy is to keep the public informed, it issued a

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