No dressing for you – another product banned by Muslims
Photo: Dana Kopel
Posted on 04/15/2008 7:09:50 AM PDT by yankeedame
Website calls on Israeli Arabs to avoid dressing after consumer discovers it contains alcohol
Roee Nahmias Published: 04.13.08, 10:28 / Israel Culture
No dressing for you – another product banned by Muslims
Photo: Dana Kopel
A website affiliated with the northern branch of Israel's Islamic Movement warned its readers to avoid a brand of Thousand Island dressing produced by a well-known Israeli company. The warning was issued after a local Arab discovered that the dressing contains alcohol.
The Palestine 48 website called on its readers to stay away from the dressing after being approached by Majdi Khatib.
"In recent days, another product was added to the list of products forbidden to Muslims because they contain alcohol," the website said. "Khatib discovered that the dressing contains alcohol and is sold naturally and inadvertently at Arab and Muslim shops."
"I was invited to dinner by a friend and discovered appetizing salads," Khatib recounted. "I asked my friend what he used to make the salad and he told me about the dressing and said it is sold in stores. When I returned home with my wife I checked the dressing's ingredients and was stunned to discover that it contains alcohol, without directing people's attention or warning them."
Khatib noted that he approached a senior figure in the manufacturer's marketing department and was told that the company did not mislead anyone, as the ingredients were clearly noted on the packaging. The senior figure reportedly told Khatib that anyone can decide whether he wishes to use the dressing.
Untrue. I have made Thousand Island dressing many times. It has no alcohol. There might be minute traces of alcohol in some ingredients, but that is impossible to eliminate. There are traces of alcohol in all grains, fruits, or their products such as bread and vinegar. Considering that humans naturally ferment some of their foods, maybe devout Muslims should abstain from touching any person or being where they might inhale breath from another person to avoid any traces of ethanol. And, of course, they need to stop driving cars! Let’s see how far this legalistic nonsense can go.
katsup? Are you trying to start a freepwar?
I have no problem with other people’s dietary rules. Having said that, I think I’ll go eat the pig for breakfast.
Maybe some good might eventually come from Muslim fanaticism. If someone points out to them that, by government edict, gasoline is mixed with ethanol, they might be persuaded to apply pressure (that is to say riot) until the ethanol is removed. Muslim cabbies have objected to fares carrying unopened bottles of liquor in their cabs. Carrying alcohol in the fuel tank should be just as objectionable.
I could give a chit less if they eat it or not. Also, I could care less if they just got off the planet.
Don’t quit. Just get into your right mind and wake up your left hand.
Great idea. Let us know when it’s open. I will fly in or drive in and dine.
I guess these Muslims cannot use mouthwash either?
Bring it on!
Air does have alcohol in it. Everything has some alcohol in it. Minute, but measurable. If you ever smelled baking bread (one of the best smells ever!) - that odor is partially the alcohol made by the yeast in the bread. Not all that alcohol is baked out of the bread either. Some stays behind.
Modern sensors are so sensitive that we can now detect the alcohol in parts per million and parts per billion in all foods, including water and air.
Since there is alcohol in every food, then no food is safe. A TRUE Muslim cannot eat anything.
If there are any Muslims still alive after knowing that, then they are not true Muslims.
AWAY WITH RUM
(c. 1926)
CHORUS
Away!Away! With rum, by gum. With rum, by gum, with rum, by gum.
Away! Away! With rum, by gum, That’s the song of the Salvation Army (or Temperance Union)
We are coming! We are coming our brave little band,
On the right side of temperance, we come for to stand.
We don’t smoke tobacco, for this we do think,
That the people who do so are liable to drink.
Oh! We never eat cookies, ‘cos cookies have yeast,
And a bite from a cookie turns a man to a beast.
Oh! Can you imagine a sorrier sight,
Than a man eating cookies until he gets tight?
Oh! We never eat fruit cake ‘cos fruit contains rum,
And a bite from a cake turns a man to a bum.
Oh! Can you imagine a sadder disgrace,
Than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face?
Oh! We never send clothes to be dry cleaned or pressed,
‘Cos ether and alcohol are used in the quest.
There’s nothing so sorry or sad I suppose,
Than a man getting drunk from the smell of his clothes.
They may take my dressing but they’ll have to pry my goats from my cold, dead fingers.
This on the same day that Bill Maher calls the Pope a Nazi supporter of pedophilia. If Bill were a real man, he’d make the same claim of Mo-Ham-Head.
Well there ya go.
LOL. Just imagine us shipping in a few cases of Jameson for Psi-Ops. LOL.
Heck....maybe they’ll all leave....we should be spraying alcohol around everywhere....
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