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Originally Posted by roysoldboy
Most sausages of all kinds contain enough pork, any at all, to make them not edible by Muslims.
Kosher beef sausages have no pork ...... I think anything kosher is acceptable under halal rules. They're pretty much the same since they were both ultimately derived from the Torah, but halal is a bit more easygoing than kosher. I think.
True enough. Read about the "Victorian Age" in England. Back during those times women felt it necessary to faint at the faintest hint of impropriety. Anything 'sexual' in nature was to be covered. Indeed, there were even special cloth 'leggings' to cover the suggestively curved legs of pianos.
It was impossible to ask for a particular piece of chicken if you were in mixed company. If there were a platter of chicken you could not ask for a 'leg' or, heaven forbid, a 'breast' or 'thigh' (wing was alright, and for leg they came up with 'drum stick'). One gentleman came up with the idea of referring to a cooked chicken as composing 'dark' or 'white' meat (which said designation continues to this day). Hence, while you could still not request a 'thigh', you could request a piece of 'dark meat' and it improved your chances of getting what you wanted.
Winston Churchill once, at a dinner party, made the mistake of asking for the breast of chicken. The woman sitting next to him reprimanded him: "Mr. Churchill, you do not say that word in public. We call it white meat".
A day later, Churchill sent the woman a corsage, with a note: "I enjoyed meeting with you last night. Pray pin this beautiful corsage to your white meat".
Ah, the Victorians, gotta love 'em...and Churchill too.
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