On Apr 22, 2019, at 7:39 PM, Ian Stuart McTaggart (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

Sure enough I was just joking last week with some friends about a Traveller® religion. I had come up with a religion based on a combination of foodie culture and the rediscovery of the ancient Solomani Judaic scriptures. I postulated to the friend that the new religion has arisen on a wealthy, high-tech world when adventurers brought an old copy of the Talmud from an off planet archeological site located in Solomani space, and it was adopted by some elites, who, being foodies, fixated on the kosher requirements. Soon enough, after a bit of retooling to fit the locally available dietary items, it became a hit, and was successfully exported to other worlds.