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Getting fired over treif chicken

Remember all the hoopla about two Orthodox Jews being on the Apprentice a few years back? Well, recently, BBC reports, one team lost a competition in the British version of the show because it failed in its quest to buy a kosher chicken:

As insults were traded among contestants on the losing team in this week's Apprentice, Sir Alan Sugar berated the contestants for not knowing what a kosher chicken was.

It had to rank as one of the most peculiar spectacles in the history of the BBC reality game show, The Apprentice - a full-blown barney about what is and isn't kosher. Contestants in this week's episode had been flown to Marrakech in Morocco and instructed to bargain for a number of items on a shopping list, including a kosher chicken.

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Miriam S.

05/12/08 10:56 AM

But the best part was that one of the contestants who didn’t know the meaning of kosher - in fact, went to look for a kosher chicken at a mosque - was Jewish.....

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