The 5 Towns Jewish Times
December 17, 2020
Some may know of the latest food craze, hot cocoa bombs. There is something people find comforting about dropping these bombs in hot milk, watching them “explode,” thereby releasing their hot cocoa mix and marshmallows. This experience is memorialized by posting the whole process on social media.
Recently, my wife, who is one of the local manufacturers of these bombs, ran into an issue: two of the local supermarkets ran out of mini marshmallows. My wife’s operation is exclusively kosher and under hashgachah. However, there are other businesses that are not. May those businesses use non-kosher marshmallows, which are produced from non-kosher animal bones, and sell their product exclusively to gentiles? Furthermore, what does this have to do with Chanukah and the daf (and, tangentially, Asarah B’Teves)?