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NO BORK!! WE ARE MUSLIM!


Being Muslim in the United States poses certain dietary challenges at times.... pepperoni, sausage, bacon... the dreaded pork products...

Now, being of Egyptian heritage provides us with an additional... lets just say distinction...

I remember every time going to a restuarant my dad pulling the waiter aside and saying... NO BORK IN ANYSING! YOU UNDARSTAND? WE ARE MUSLIM, WE DONT EAT ZA BORK! GO TELL ZA MANAJAR!


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Login to find out (March 27, 2006 at 12:15am)
>>Did you notice the pork enzymes in a lot of products nowadays?

Actually, I am noticing more of the wine sauces with everything...and I get bothered when some Muslims think it evaporates when it is cooked :#
I am thankful for all of the halal restaurant choices in California (even chinese and persian)..though I need to try to stick to them more when we eat out...I am sure that there are a lot of pork/alcohol traces that enter the food we eat outside without us knowing :( Did you ever think of that? :(

>>what bothers me ba'a is muslims who make such a big deal that they don't eat pork, but drink alcohol a3dy on the plane.

Oh my God!!! *: Rabena yehdeena gamee3an..
 
Login to find out (March 26, 2006 at 6:23am)
The worst thing just happened to me. Despite my usual vigil self around pork (ya3), I tasted it this weekend (crying face). My plate came with a baked potato that had hidden bacon bits under the sour-cream . I ran to the restroom and almost burned my mouth with hot water just to make sure that this horrific taste went away (a crying face again)..

After what happened to me this weekend, I totally appreciate now the extra, excessive, making-sure, just-in-case, interrogations that my beloved mother makes to unsuspecting waiters and waitresses at restaurants to ensure that nothing we are ever served has any pork or alcohol, even with water/vegetable products :) If only she was there, her questions would have saved me the grief of enduring that most disgusting taste..

p.s.: the story below by "touna_oo" was really funny :)
 
Login to find out (June 21, 2005 at 9:56am)
not cool at all. lawsuit!
 
Login to find out (June 17, 2005 at 8:42am)
i remember this funny thing that happened when one time my dad (Allah yer7amu)and cousins were going to thailand... and during the flight in the plane and b4 the flight attendant served lunch, he kept warning them and reminding them to tell the flight attendant that they r muslims so she/he doesn't serve them pork... and in the end, guess who ate pork? MY DAD!!! lolz...
 
Login to find out (June 12, 2005 at 12:14pm)
lol that reminds me....The muslim store here is also owned by a paki, he is this old really nice guy. Every time I go buy something, at the check out he is always like, soo what do you do with this? and I have to sit there and expalin it to him, he is just amazed!!
 
Login to find out (June 9, 2005 at 2:04pm)
Thats quite funny!
 
Login to find out (June 9, 2005 at 11:56am)
They dont know what they missing
 
Login to find out (June 8, 2005 at 2:16pm)
We don eatz the bigs and drinks the lickers...is there bigs or lickers in zis food? (pig/liquor)....my familia at a restaurent
 
Login to find out (June 8, 2005 at 1:32am)
In 5th grade i went camping with the boy scouts. They were big on bacon for breakfast. i cannot convey to you how disguisting and pervasive the smell was. and we were outside. so there is nothing one can do. its not a sight, where you can look away, it was in the air all around us. always a problem solver, i began to smell my friend anthony for each breath. he thought i was kind of a freak.

in 5th grade, i was kind of a freak.
 
Login to find out (June 8, 2005 at 1:26am)
Do you guys know that egypt is actually a bork exporter?
 
Login to find out (June 7, 2005 at 11:40pm)
lol I like the accent!
 
Login to find out (June 7, 2005 at 10:23pm)
its always funny to watch the reaction of the person across the counter at McDonalds...
 
Login to find out (June 7, 2005 at 9:20pm)
yah we have to take it easy with the non-muslim they maybe don't understand. we just have to tell them kindly no pork please. as simple at that.
 
Login to find out (June 7, 2005 at 5:08pm)
My Aunt came to visit us once in america back like in 1984-85 and me and bro took her to mcdonalds. She asked the woman at the counter what do they have to eat. So she went on to say that all they have are HAMburgers. My aunt flipped out.. NO HAM NO HAM Astaghfurallah ya 3ayal izay taklo HAM. I ONLY WANT BEEF BORGAR. we had to calm our aunt down and explain to her that it was beef.. but she didn't believe it and made us all leave, then lectured us about eating "bork".