Comments on: What have you been eating?

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:56:07 +0000

So Tim walked into a fried CHICKEN place and asked if everything is Halal.

The waiter goes: “It’s all halal, brother.” (meaning everything that is served there is halal)

And Tim went “I’ll have the spare ribs.” (from a chicken, presumably…)

And the waiter said “That’s not halal.” (meaning “It’s not served here so go across the street and get it there, u dumb noob!”)

Truly amazing…

By: OmarG

OmarG — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:34:56 +0000

There’s a Pizza and Italian fast food joint outside of Honolulu, Hawaii in a place called Kailua Town. Its owned by an Indonesian family and strictly serves halal meat, turkey pepperoni and so on, not to mentiona a sign saying alcohol was not allowed on the premises. I would swear that they had an Italian cook in the back, but they didn’t. That’s how good they were. Service is flattering, and both of these reasons were my prime motivations to keep going. Its called Amina Pizza, Kailua, Hawaii. Try it out next time you’re in town!

By: irn_bru

irn_bru — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:17:47 +0000

One thing you could do to minimise the risk of bad hygiene is to visit places that have branches. Because that way keeping a good reputation will be more important for them, thus they will pay more attention to hygiene.

And visit proper restaurants rather than takeaway places.

By: Dynamite Soul

Dynamite Soul — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:31:47 +0000

As salaamu alaikum,

I have seen so many halal restuarants open and close due to low standards of cleanliness.

There are so many vegetarians in my city, so it really isn’t that hard finding alternatives with higher standards and better service.

I think that now, many Muslims with food-centered businesses are getting the picture. My local grocery store will order certified halal products if I need them to, but I wish to support the Muslims.

I think that initially they thought American Muslims were being snobs, but we are just used to generally high standards of “service”.

May Allah guide Muslim business-owners.

By: ummabdulla

ummabdulla — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:56:07 +0000

Kosher and halal are different; aren’t some things that are kosher not halal? (And there’s more than one standard for “kosher”, too, isn’t there?)

Bikhair, I’m just curious… why are you going by the name “Taqiyyah”?

By: thabet

thabet — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:38:52 +0000

Those halal “American” fried chicken places are awful and very dirty. Good if you’re on a student budget, but you do have to ask yourself the quality of the food at the prices you’re paying.

By: Shamil

Shamil — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:05:48 +0000

Just forget the politics - “it’s easy if you try,” as John Lennon said.

He also said in that song “imagine no possessions” even though the video is set in his mansion.

By: Old Pickler

Old Pickler — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:26:03 +0000

eat kosher

Food for thought. What the first generation of Muslim immigrants did before there were halal shops.

Kosher is more strict than halal, so if you eat kosher, you’ve got it covered.

Just forget the politics - “it’s easy if you try,” as John Lennon said.

By: Bikhair aka Taqiyyah

Bikhair aka Taqiyyah — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:15:06 +0000

All you Muslims no about how you should handle doubtful matters. Just leave it all. If worst comes to worst eat kosher. To think I was looking forward to come to London and have easy take-away Indo Pak food.

In the states if you want Indo Pak food you gotta do eat in style.

By: aicha

aicha — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 15:49:47 +0000

Assalamu Alaikum,

There was an awful case in Algeria whereby a patisserie owner poisoned a number of customers. He had a rat problem, so before closing the shop would sprinkle rat poison on top of the flour. In the morning he would remove the top layer of flour (as well as any dead rats, one presumes) but one fateful morning he forgot to do so and stirred everything up…