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Post by lagatta on Feb 15, 2013 16:31:09 GMT
I dunno. We have a friend who is vegetarian (and has no interest in meat substitutes, but he isn't a kid, and is a decent cook. However he puts up with the South American contingent grilling sausages and steaks, and they refrain from laughing at unfathomable dietary restrictions.
Such imitation "food" is obviously highly processed and no backbone of a healthy diet, but there are people who have turned away from eating meat for ethical reasons, not taste. Some of them love the taste of meat but don't want to kill animals for food. I'm not vegetarian; just saying what vegetarians I know tell me.
I don't want to judge that any more than I'd judge religious dietary restrictions, as long as those aren't imposed on me personally.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2013 17:41:35 GMT
Oh, I am totally willing to judge religious dietary restrictions. While there a totally valid reason 2000 years ago to stop people from eating things like pork or shellfish, those reasons have completely expired. And I am appalled that the halal butchers must dispose of 50% of the animal they have just slaughtered because there are forbidden bits and pieces (luckily, these parts are now sold to non halal butchers rather than going to waste, but I think it is ridiculous).
I have total respect for some aspects of many religions, but I have absolutely no respect for ridiculous rules that religious leaders (and not god) made up over the years just to show their power.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 15, 2013 22:19:44 GMT
kerouac, I think you've confused halal and kosher as per the latter restriction. And often the "forbidden" parts of a kosher animal could wind up as halal meat in Muslim lands. It would simply be sold to Christians in Christendom. Some thing about Jacob, the angel and the sciatic nerve, if I recall...
I think those rules are nonsense too - I just mean I would certainly refrain from serving pork to practising Jews or Muslims, though my house would never be ritually clean for the more stringent among them. Actually it is a matter of courtesy and respect for persons, not for religious rules. But I will NOT accommodate someone who refuses that I might down my lamb tagine with wine in my house or have some cheese afterwards.
Strangely, some of the more stringent kosher rules simply didn't exist until fairly recently. It is even odder that some of these rules require recourse to modern science! Ultraorthodox Jews won't drink New York City water because there are allegedly some harmless microorganisms in it that they see as akin to "insects".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2013 22:43:07 GMT
Absolutely. That is why I refuse to respect such rules. Anybody who believes that things must be done in such a way will not be invited to a meal in my home.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 23, 2014 23:38:17 GMT
Should I put this item on foods and customs for the Year of the Horse here? Or somewhere else? I haven't found any other thread about the Lunar New Year. www.globalgourmet.com/food/special/lunar/index.html#axzz2rGM0Dhu8There will be various Têt celebrations coming up here. I missed one of them - it was so cold I couldn't bear going out in the evening, but on Sunday there is an event at a nearby Vietnamese Catholic Church (the Vietnamese Buddhist Temple and the Cao Dai place are even closer) is holding a food fair; I'll have to get there early, they say, for the nicest stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 23:49:07 GMT
Chinese New Year decorations are already up, and Monoprix is having various specials under the advertising term "Happy Nouille Year."
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