Is a Bad Tasting Food Mixture Treif?
In Yoreh Deah we learn about ta’am ki’ikar, the prohibition to eat a mixture of food that has in it the taste of a forbidden food, as we addressed the major exception to this principle: ta’am lifgam, when the forbidden food imparts a bad taste to the mixture. The gemara (Avodah Zara 67a-b) teaches that such a mixture is permitted (according to all but Rebbe Meir). This is the reason that one can eat from food that was cooked in a non-kosher pot, or milkhig food that was cooked in a fleishig pot,
