Well, many others have jumped into this...so here is my take.....are you out of your mind to allow, in fact condone your boyfriend´s potential risky sexual behaviour?  Would you be willing to share your body with him after he has shared his with, who knows who?.........and picked up, who knows what?..........that could be passed on to your potential children? Would that be fair to them?

Monogamous married women have one of the highest incidence of HIV infection....how where do you think they get that?............from husbands who fool around...that´s who.

Think about this....and do some research. 

Very true nifritity, this is an important subject, thank you for bringing it up.

If you want to know what a particular brand of cosmetic has what in it, check out this site. It lists them all by brand name and gives a safety report. I use it before any cosmetic purchase.

Enviornmental Working Group´s

Cosmetic Safety Database

Well, if you consider it, you will realize there is a lot of sense in it.  Most the time we don´t know until much later.

For example, if people kept to eating kosher meat, there would not have been a problem with mad cow disease. Those parts that pass it on are exactly those parts that are forbidden.  By stunning animal before slaughter, dura matter is spread around the system.

I didn´t think or mean to infer bigos was inspired by Jewish cuisine, but rather there may well be a Jewish version of it. 

Variation in food preparation is nice, sometimes things become too standardized and loose their dynamics.

Thank you for the lesson in Polish food....

I don´t know anything about Polish foods, or do I pretend to, but am trusting Daydreamer or other Polish people to inform me....about what ever it is they do with fermented cabbage and (what sounds like) fermented meat?

I believe Poland had a large Jewish population prior to WWII. I think they adapted much of the foods, so there must be a Jewish version of Bigo.  They have kreplach, knish

Poultry doesn´t give milk either....

Game meat can be halal....the actual slaughter of the animal must be in the guidlines proscribibed and the animal, of course, has to be one of the animals allowed.  The allowed animals is less limited than kosher animals.  Even the allowed parts of animals in halal meat is larger than the parts allowed in kosher meats.  In kosher laws no dairy should be served at the same meal or within certain amount of hours as when animal flesh is consumed.  

Fish is excluded from those laws.  Cold blooded animal, maybe?

Maybe more than you wanted to know about kosher laws

Polish Bigos??!! You know with a name like that I had to look it up...

"Bigos is usually eaten with rye bread and potatoes. As with many stews, bigos can be kept in a cool place or refrigerated then reheated later—its taste actually intensifies when reheated. A common practice is to keep a pot of bigos going for a week or more, replenishing ingredients as necessary (cf. perpetual stew). This, the seasonal availability of cabbage and its richness in vitamin C made bigos a traditional part of the winter diet in Poland and elsewhere. In Poland, it was a traditional dish to be served on the Second Day of Christmas."

The lots of mushrooms with sauerkraut sounds nice.....yum....I make a dish out of kimchi (I prefer  baechu kimchi, which has no fermented fish, just cabbage). My dish consists of quinoa or barley, tahini and kimchi and with a light little of toasted sesame and nori over the top.

Bigo sounds interesting....if it were made with no pork I might eat it...do you have a halal or kosher variety?.....

Quoting Daydreamer

 

Soon, you´ll all be eating pierogi and sauerkraut and listening to our coarse language *evil laugh* Oh, and we´re not Turkish (are we? ), but part of Istanbul already is Polish - Polonezkoy!

You call it pierogi, but they are also called manti, kreplach, wonton.....it seems every culture has them. I think it´s one of those things like when you rub your eyes everyone sees the same patterns.

Then about the sauerkraut....there are many variations of that too....I love sauerkraut...but I was not aware it is a Polish dish....???