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for 7-Eleven, said the demand is so
long lines often stretch across the back
high, the store may install a third
of the store and it gets hard for the
machine and make it all kosher.
floor to get cleaned.
"Last summer when it was really
He said 80 percent of the store's
hot, there were Jewish people here all
Slurpee sales come from the all-kosher
the time," said Benyomin Berlin, 12.,
dispenser. "It's the single most impor-
tant piece of machinery in this store."
of Oak Park. "The kosher Slurpees
Exactly where the Oak Park Slurpee
were always melted because so many
people were in here using them."
sales rate nationally is a trifle unclear.
Keeping kosher means denying
Local franchisers cnvn each store and
yourself the flavors of the month pro-
buy supplies from 7-Eleven Inc. The
motions, like sour green apple.
parent company tracks the number of
Kashering them would be an over-
cups it ships to the store. By that mea-
whelming task, Rabbi Broyde said.
sure, Oak Park is always among the
"When you look at a label and see
top 10 nationally, Kimball said.
`natural or artificial flavoring' on it, it
But is that because of the kosher
can have over 30 different ingredi-
imprimatur?
ents," said Broyde. "We can't say that
Part of the success is based on the
it's not kosher, but the only way we
store's location, Kimball said, "but it
know is if it's kosher certified." .
does get used more because it's kosher."
While the 7-Eleven has promised
Company officials said they didn't
know how many 7-Elevens operate
kosher Slurpee machines, but they
guessed that some might be found
in other heavily Orthodox city
neighborhoods in Brooklyn, N.Y.
or Skokie, Ill. Rabbi Yerachmiel
Morrison at the Orthodox Union,
one of the national agencies that
supervises kashrut, said kosher
Slurpees may be unique to the
Oak Park store, which pays the
Vaad a nominal fee to supervise.
No one can say who should get
credit for first kashering the Oak
Park machine, but Broyde says the
practice is at least a decade old.
Bassie Landsman, 13; Chaya Roth. bart, 14,
canned goods
Other packaged
and Gola'a Cohen, 12, all of Oak Park,
in the store, such as Coca-Cola and
enjoy their kosher Slurpees.
Oreos, carry a kosher seal, but
products like the hot dogs and
the Vaad that only kosher products go
pepperoni and cheese rolls are dis-
into that machine, Broyde said he has
tinctly treif (non-kosher).
gotten calls from some kids saying
In any event, the boom in the
that it wasn't properly cleaned when
Orthodox community in north Oak
flavors were switched or it didn't taste
Park has meant a growing market for
like what was posted on the sign.
the kosher Slurpees. Many Orthodox
Sander Friedman said the five
families are large, so there are plenty
acceptable flavors are enough to keep
of older brothers and sisters to intro-
him happy. Others impose even more
duce their siblings to the joy of eight
stringent limits.
ounces of Surge topped by another
"The kids usually get Vernor's
eight of Mountain_ Dew.
because I don't like them having caf-
Last Friday, for example, Sander
feine," said Aviva Luss, who was wait-
Friedman, 12, walked his brothers
ing last Friday in the air-conditioned
Menachem, 10, and Avrohm Shmuel,
comfort of her mini-van while her
5, to the store and supervised their con-
children, Eli and Mindy, ran into the
struction of S1.30 "extra larges." Sander
store. "They can never get Mountain
was proud that his parents had trusted
Dew on a school night."
him to make the trip without them.
You don't have to be Orthodox or
That the Slurpees Nve re kosher was
even Jewish to enjoy a kosher Slurpee,
no big deal, he said; everything the
of course.
family ears is. \X/hat's important, he
Last Tuesday, Alicia Gilchrist, an
confided pragmatically, is that the treat
African-American who lives in Oak Park,
is fast. You could freeze any drink and
was mixing herself a Slice, Pepsi and
make it at home, but it takes too long."
Mountain Dew Slurpee. Kosher, smosh-
The heat of surrrner can be a prob-
er, she said, "I just go for the taste." Pi
lem for buyers and store employees:

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