Expensive Restaurants Doesn’t Mean They Have the Best Food

[OneEyedDiva]

Just asking because I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but maybe I’m wrong, is it true that Muslims don’t eat pork?

Apparently you have missed some of my posts about it Oldman. Yes, it's true. We are not to eat actual pork meat, anything containing pork by-products (such as gelatin [unless it's kosher or halal]}. We also have to be careful not to eat anything that is cooked on the same grill as pork. It sometimes makes eating at restaurants a challenge. But we've identified restaurants that do not cook non pork items on the same grill as pork items; it seems more of them are aware not to do that these days. After all, many of their patrons are Muslims and Jews, who also are not supposed to eat pork.

As I mentioned in another thread, God directed all of his people (Christians included) not to eat the flesh of swine, but some ignore that. In fact, tell them not to eat their beloved bacon and they'll rip your head off. I have Jewish friends and at least one of them ate pork on occasion. I grew up as Christian, my parents went to church every Sunday, but my mother cooked pork as did other Christian family members. But as Muslims, we're also taught that if there is nothing else to eat but pork and the alternative is literally dying of starvation, it would be permissible to eat.

 

[oldman]

I thought so. I remember watching the movie “Boyz ‘n the Hood when Cuba Goodling, Jr brought his dad (Laurence Fishburne) some food from the house across the street that was having a cookout and he asked Cuba, “I know you didn’t bring me any pig.” I thought then that he was probably Muslim.

 

[Born_To_Lose]

Tofu is not one of my favorite entrees, but it beats eating chicken.