US religion is worth $1.2T/year, more than America's 10 biggest tech companies, combined

nod Yeah, that’s a solid point, and I concede on that aspect, for sure. I was thinking more along the lines of “what observant Jews and Muslims eat” and not the general increase from non-Jews incidentally or intentionally eating kosher foods. :slight_smile: Basically, I was thinking of Boris the Cleveland Kosher Butcher, not Hebrew National, but, yeah, of course the percentage of Hebrew National’s business from Jews versus non-Jews is going to be population proportionate–and yet still count under the “kosher market” aggregate. As would commerce like @VenTatsu’s enjoyment of kosher delis.

Heck, in regards to the kosher deli comment, that actually brings up a memory from my childhood; about 20-ish years ago, there was a pilot program to try to have a certified kosher concessions stand at the Cleveland baseball stadium, as there wasn’t one previously; I attended the first game (the Indians lost, as they always did whenever I attended) when the stand was opened, and I distinctly recall that, not only was the line filled with mostly non-Jews, the line was at least 4x longer than any other stand (and they ran out of fries by the 4th inning, and out of everything by the 6th). And one of the reasons it was so popular was because the kosher concessions were perceived as being of superior quality by the non-Jews, which the planners of the booth had not accounted for in their purchasing.

So, yeah, I concede this point in that regard, but I’ll still argue that the totality of the kosher industry will only be a small amount of the staggering sum mentioned in the article, especially given how many pies the Catholic Church has its fingers in.

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