NO.I have never heard of a Christian taking pieces of ham out of split pea soup before it was consumed.
From what I recall only Jews and Muslims avoided consuming pork.So he’s either a Jew or a Muslim.Though I think we all know what he is.
Well, you have now. I'm a Christian and I routinely fish out chunks of ham from pea soup and don't add them to my homemade, even though I do use ham hocks for flavoring.
Santa Barbara's my hometown, and my parents used to drive us up to Buellton to Pea Soup Andersen's for the Traveler's Special -- all the pea soup you could eat served with various kinds of bread. They made it without chunks of ham, so to me chunkless pea soup is the only way to go.
It didn't have to be a religious thing. The ham might have been a fatty piece, like the piece that comes in a can of pork and beans. Maybe he didn't want the cholesterol.
Plus, reports differ. Did he methodically pick the pieces out of the soup or did he just spoon around them and leave them uneaten? Most reports just say he "skipped" the ham.
Possibly Obama is a Muslim, but there's also the possibility he did it just to play with your head and give you something to talk about ...