When Josh wanted to start having cholent at the hashkama minyan, he brought in the ingredients and was getting ready to start making it. He was told by someone that the bag of dry beans required hashgaha. He hadn’t heard of such a thing, and so he went to ask the rabbi about it. The rabbi sent him to Phil, who was at that time the mashgiah of the kitchen. When Josh asked him whether the dry beans needed hashgaha, Phil’s response was:

“It is unfortunate that your generation has missed by twenty years the period of time in which Orthodox Judaism was practiced with common sense.”