I found a recipe for a caesar salad and there are anchovies in the dressing. Can the salad be eaten with a meat meal? (The magazine in which it was found says to eat it as an appetizer so as not to eat fish with meat.)

My non-authoritative understanding is that you can eat the salad immediately preceding or following the meat course, on separate dishes and with separate cutlery.

And wash out your mouth with an alcoholic drink in between!

(Actually it doesn't need to be alcoholic but people use this as an excuse...)

Does the fact that the anchovies are blended in the dressing and not at all resembling fish make any difference?
I thought the thing with fish and meat was that it was a sakana because fish bones are amall and meat bones big and therefore you could choke.

It because of "tzoras" (I am unsure how you accurately translate tzoras since tzoras is not leprosy [unless here it does mean that])

I'm extra machmir. I have a drink before the challah, after the fish, after the soup, and before dessert...

It would also depend on what the exact fish ratio is. A similar scenario is worcestershire sauce, which is made with fish. Some brands have enough fish in them to warrant a label of "O-U fish," while others are simply marked "O-U" (or another interchangable hechsher).

I've also heard this, but never seen a source for it. Anyone know where it appears in a halachic source?


Have any halachic sources dealt with the observation that people who don't keep halacha don't come down with either tzaraat or with Hansen's disease from eating fish and meat together?

I believe that it is bread that you eat between a fish course and a meat course.

i don't know about bread, but people do take a drink between the fish course and the chicken soup on shabbos (i'm sure, they might be thirsty as well, but i heard of the reason of "separation")