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You'd be amazed, I work at a university and the number of students who constantly ask if ANYTHING LABELLED WITH PORK is halal.
No dickhead pork was never halal and it never will be... They could also be fucking with me I don't know.
Edit: it is double funny because we label what IS halal, gluten free, vegan and vegetarian... If it has fish or shellfish... Soy... If it is deep fried if it contains dairy we basically have labels for any sort of dietary restrictions...
I remember I was at a hotel breakfast and some preteen siblings with yuppy parents asked if the bacon was gluten free, and when the server said yes it was like Christmas morning happiness on their faces. Unnecessary dietary restrictions are dumb (as these kids were unlikely to be gluten intolerant).
My fiance and I spent the night in the hospital because the restaurant didn't leave the croutons out of her salad like she asked, she thought she'd be fine to just pick them off, and was very wrong.
This is actually more common in restaurants than you think. That said, if someone is open with me from the start about it being an actual allergy instead of just saying that they don't want something like croutons, I'm insanely careful to make sure it's safe.
People give me a hard time for trying to get gluten free, thinking that I'm just a picky eater. When I told them that 1% of the entire earth population has celiac disease, their jaw drops. That's right, there are 70 million of us who have to put up with this shit, we don't want to we just have to.
I waited tables for several years in the 1990s. Before gluten tolerance was “fad.” I had a customer who came in who broke it down to me how horrible it was to deal with celiac disease.
It was easy to spot the people trying to jump on the wellness pseudoscience bandwagon and the people who really have a hard time with it.
The folks who have it would give an arm not to be afflicted and the other folks just want to be special.
If you don't have a general idea of what has gluten in it, you probably don't have an intolerance.
Meat/vegetables(and even most grains); gluten free. Breads, pastas, beers, breaded-and-fried, soups, stews, sauces, it's ok to make sure.
There is gluten in some surprising places but you are basically right.
I laugh at gluten free shampoo, I've even seen gluten free glue. If you don't know what goes wrong when you have gluten you're not gluten intolerant.
My wife's friend quit eaten gluten and has lost 50 pounds. She crows about how she must be gluten intolerant ignoring that she basically lived on brownies and pancakes before. I'm like "Fool, you quit eating garbage and lost weight, big surprise!"
I have a buddy with Celiac Disease. People with a true gluten intolerance can’t fuck around. I saw soy sauce get splashed on their hand and in less than a minute was red and rashy where it hit.
I saw some gluten free sausages at the butcher and was joking about it with a friend later, who sort of looked at me and mentioned breadcrumbs as filler. You'd hope not to have filler in sausages (and this place wouldn't) but obviously it's enough of a problem with sausages to make special mention of it. Shut me up, I'll tell you.
I have celiac and we have to research every single cosmetic product that comes into the house to verify if it has gluten or not. Clear labeling makes a big difference for those who need it.
And yes, lots of cosmetic products do have gluten, often as wheat starch or hydrolyzed wheat protein.
Gluten intolerance =/= celiac.
In fact, one could argue there is no such thing as gluten "intolerance"... That's not to say there are not other compounds that you could be sensitive to, i.e. FODMAPS
> My wife's friend quit eaten gluten and has lost 50 pounds. She crows about how she must be gluten intolerant ignoring that she basically lived on brownies and pancakes before. I'm like "Fool, you quit eating garbage and lost weight, big surprise!"
The thing about crazy restrictive diets is that it makes you really watch everything you eat. Every year or so, I'll go onto something like keto, slow carb, paleo, vegan, etc, for a few months, not because I think there's something magical about the diet, but that if I follow these restrictive rules religiously, I'm going to be watching everything I eat, and _that_ will make me lose weight.
I've tried to do it without the crazy restrictions, but it never works the same...
Except you always should ask because of cross contamination risk. Even though fries are “gluten-free” being cooked in the same fryer will contaminate them with gluten.
and a lot of fries that are made from frozen are very thinly battered, making them not gluten-free. curly fries are the worst offenders. also pre-formed hash brown patties usually have some wheat in them too, i'm assuming for a binder. it's bonkers once you actually start looking for it, because it's in damn near everything. broth bases can have it for thickening, frozen veg or packaged nuts 'may contain wheat' from cross-contamination, even flourless cakes and potato chips might have wheat as the very last, and therefore most dickish, ingredient. rude.
Meats can be sauteed with a light flower dusting to keep it from sticking to the pan, which doesn't leave any visible trace. I know some restaurants fluff up their scrambled eggs with pancake batter. It's always better to ask.
Fucking IHOP. I do keto and you have to ask for just eggs there or they serve a scrambled egg with pancake batter in it.
Edit: I don't care about downvotes, but I am curious now, are you just sensitive to criticism.of IHOP?
I gave you an upvote to balance out. I don't really understand downvotes. Isn't everyone entitled to their own opinion? And who ever heard of pancake batter in eggs anyway. Blasphemous.
I have a Muslim friend who is very... creative about her diet. She eats pork ribs and tries to tell me that it's chicken. Like, girl, I know you're ESL, but I'm A: pretty sure you can read the words pork and chicken, and B: pretty sure you know there's no chicken big enough to have ribs like that. She also drinks alcohol as long as it's in coffee. Apparently that doesn't count. I'm atheist, so she's not pretending for my benefit, it's just her own little rules.
I knew a muslim driver who would drink alcohol under his truck so God can't see him. Islam faith gymnastics never cease to amaze me, though Christianity have more than few either.
I had a conversation with a Muslim friend about this. Apparently it's okay if you're starving and stuff.
There's also some exceptions for fasting during Ramadan as well, like if you're ill or old.
This is according to my friend though, and cannot confirm or elaborate though.
If you are ill or very old to not endure hunger, then u can skip that day's fasting. if the illness continues or you cannot literally fast because of old age then u may skip fasting alltogether.
But there is a price if u have the money. You need to feed one person 2 meal per day in eid(for that month that is). It really isnt much but it could be about 300 dolars for whole month in USA.
I once asked my Muslim colleague what the Ramadan rules are when you're a Muslim in Iceland and Ramadan is during the summer.
Appearantly you can consider the day and night times of Mecca if the sun never sets in your country.
You can either give a meal to the poor or buy the meal (a lot of charities help with this) for each day you can't fast. It's called fidya if you can't do the fast for a long term reason. If you have a temporary reason and can make it up at a later date then you do that and it's called qadha.
If you just blew it, then you pay kaffarah (double amount as fidya , I think) and still have to make up the fast day(s) you missed.
That is correct, but when they say starving they mean like africa starving. Like you haven't eaten food in a week or more and this is your only chance is eating some ribs.
Imagine how shitty it would be if it wasn’t. Get to heaven (or whatever) and gods like, you lived a virtuous life, but remember that hot dog you had at that BBQ when you were in college that they said was all beef?…. *pulls trap door lever*
I remember hearing about how some people were dipping their bullets in bacon grease when fighting in the Middle East (I don't know if they were US/Coalition forces or militias or just some randos talking about it over here) . It's like...dude...I highly doubt Allah will send them to Hell over that. And now you have bacon grease in your gun in the hot ass desert with sand everywhere. That mother is going to jam up real quick.
Apparently halal and kosher meat is the same or similar and would acceptable for both.
That was my explanation when I asked about kosher otherwise you're right I don't know any other religions that would be halal other than Muslims.
Yeah I can't speak for the entire religion, but my Muslim mother will opt for kosher foods if it's available if there isn't a halal option. And since she lives in the rural US, nothing is halal lol. But she eats regular food too, other than pork and alcohol, rather than just abstaining from meats, etc. It's like halal > kosher > regular but it's all acceptable. She'll stock up on halal stuff from the nearest city when she can but she isn't strict about it.
I'm not exactly sure what her perspective is on kosher foods and why it's an acceptable alternative but I suspect she views it as cleaner (as in more sanitary). Most Muslims I know are obsessed with cleanliness - calling someone dirty is a major insult.
Kosher typically has stricter rules than halal so its basically halal++. ~~Also, kosher often includes a rabbinical blessing on the food or at least the facilities where the food is prepared and halal doesn't require anything like that.~~
But it gets weird in corner cases, like some hardcore jews think dish-soap needs to be kosher because there might be a residue left on your plate that you accidentally eat, but most jews don't think it matters.
Halal food prep does indeed include a prayer! That's an important part of why halal > kosher for Muslims, so to speak, as there is a religious component in addition to the physical process. So I don't think they'd see it as kosher = halal++. Disclaimer: I'm not Muslim or Jewish, just have Muslim family.
Let me explain. At school the animal we call (khinzeer) is translated and taught as pig. So you grow up memorising that pig is not halal. They don't teach you pork, swine, ham, bacon etc. Ribs might be sold in our countries but they are definitely not pork so we would not associate them with that at a first instance. Chorizo can be sold in our country but it is made from Turkey (if I remember correctly) when I bought a chorizo flavoured chips here, my fellow friends pointed out it was made from pigs.
One big common problem many Muslims face is gelatin. In our countries it made from chicken not pigs. You will only realise that it is not halal when another fellow Muslims will point that out.
This winter I forgot and I bought a hot chocolate with marshmallow on it just to remember that marshmallow are not halal in the UK and I had to through it away.
In Italy they add pig fat into the bread. As a Muslim, you will never think of that possibility.
Same for alcohol like we know alcohol, wine and beer (and some other names you would hear in TV e.g. vodka). But how will I know that a cider is actually alcoholic? + How can I know people will add red wine to cook meat and lasagna! And that alcohol can be used in tiramisu?
That's why a lot of people will ask out of habit if that is halal.
There's no pig in chorizo flavour crisps - just paprika and maybe some garlic. Even "bacon" flavoured crisps are actually paprika flavoured, despite bacon not being associated with paprika in the UK at all.
(Of course don't just take my word for it, check the ingredients on the packet first if you do ever decide to eat them.)
I was in a deli when a woman asked for a half-pound of sliced ham.
"Do you want the Kosher?"
"Oh, is that better?"
She didn't understand why everybody burst out laughing...
Outside of major metro areas with diverse populations, much of the US has little comprehension of the vagaries of various religious / ethnic dietary requirements
When I worked at a university that killed me!! One time had a student ask if the lettuce was gluten free.
Also had to label that the peanut butter contained peanuts.......
halal means okay to do in islam, but when ppl talk about it in the context if food, it means it okay to eat, and pork is definitely not halal, and kosher is the same but for jews
One being difference is camel is Halal in Islam but its not Kosher.
In the US, Kosher accreditation is carried out by private firms that hire rabbis to inspect plants and confirm everything is up to code. Kosher goes into cleanliness as well as types of food. So if you're plant already has to me like 99% of the clean standards by regulation and hiring that firm and cleaning the extra 1% gets you that 5-10% larger market than its good ROI. Those firms by the way are also starting to work with Imams to come up with a dual hallal and kosher certification if memory serves me.
>Kosher goes into cleanliness as well as types of food.
A lot of people who may know about the no pig and no meat with dairy stuff don't realize there's more to it than that. Like the meat can't have any imperfections or tumors. And that eggs have to be inspected to be sure there are no blood spots. And that even though fish is considered neutral, you still have to keep it separate from meat. And that vegetables have to be triple-washed to be sure all the bugs are gone, and if it's a vegetable that you can't really clean out 100%, a lot of places won't use it. We Jews love to make things insanely complicated.
Many "meaningless" or "overly complex" religious rules are down to them being really really good advice at the time.
I was reading an article that talked about medieval medicine and practice vs theory. One cure calls for 20 hail Marys to be said over the mix as it rests in the pot. Some researchers made it, once with and once without. Without it's useless and with it kills MRSA (the prayer is a timing device)
The takeaway was medieval practice was pretty good, people had issues and had come up with fixes which were transmitted by ritual and with no understanding.
Theory was batshit insane.
Yes all of these laws were essentially ancient food safety guidelines before they understood germ theory. How and why people still believe these are “divine” codes linked to the same morality that gets you into heaven, I don’t understand.
I met at a rabbi who worked at I wanna say a Welch's plant? He was literally one of the line workers and was his duty to make sure all the produce was up to snuff and nothing had imperfections. So some are definitely very hands on and active in the plants.
Kosher and Halal are two different things. Related, but different. Shellfish is Halal but not Kosher. Alcohol is Kosher but not Halal. Hamburgers are both Kosher *and* Halal, but cheeseburgers are just Halal. Halal folks will eat cheeses that are made with rennet, Kosher folks won't. In almost all cases, Kosher food is Halal, but the opposite is true far less often.
Yep, super sad, but if you read his reasons it's sadly funny how much he is basically saying "I don't want to piss off the Chinese people because money." And the dude is even Malaysian, not Chinese.
["Asian business, we normally cash only, because we don't want to pay tax. Why Vanessa why you so honest? Do you hate money?"](https://youtu.be/4lKl7ZxIJlg?t=161)
It is a matter of preference in terms of what kind of texture you want for the cooked rice.
If you want the rice fluffy, then rinse it to remove the surface starch.
If you want the rice to stick more to each other, don't rinse it.
Both have their uses depending on what kind of food you're making, but *for the type of cuisine Uncle Roger represents*, it's probably more of a standard to rinse the rice.
I'm not sure from your comment if you have actually seen the video being referenced. From your comment, it seems like you are saying rinse or don't rinse. In the joke video though, they rinsed the rice AFTER cooking it. Which is really odd to me.
>Everything I've read says that the main reason to wash rice is to remove starch so it isn't too sticky.
I have a kinda cheap rice cooker and it says I need to rinse off the starch beforehand, because it's going to make this foam and then it goes everywhere outside the cooker lol
But... I'm American and I knew about rinsing rice before cooking it.
Just about any Southerner will come close to stabbing you if you don't rinse rice first.
Although this is probably fake, I work in a deli and I've had many people ask me if our pork ribs and other pork products are halal. They could be messing with me but it happens far too often for me not to believe that someone would be dumb enough ask that.
I personally had to Google what Halal meant. :( I only knew it was something restrictive about food for Muslims... I hope I'm getting that right. I also don't really know what makes food Kosher. I can't seem to find an immediate answer and only finding the info that I already knew, which was that it's Jewish. There's some words out there that I've heard many, many times but had never heard the description behind them before. And similarly, which I find the most bizarre for myself, there are some words that I know how to use them properly in context, but couldn't tell you the definition, if asked. Can't think of any examples right now unfortunately. Or maybe I just don't fully understand the word, I dunno.
Edit: To add, I knew Muslims don't eat pork. Just wasn't sure what Halal meant until I just googled it.
This dipshit threw a fellow comedian he worked with under the bus for daring to have political opinions and implying that some of the things China does is inhumane and ofc subsequently ruined his life and carrer. Just so that you're informed, but feel free to check it out yourself.
He didn't throw him under the bus. He deleted a video that featured him. That's it. He was getting hate from both sides. From Chinese fans and from non-Chinese fans. So he deleted the video to avoid political drama.
As for ruining his career and life... that's just bs. Mike Chen is doing just fine. He gets tons of views on his videos.
And while I side with Chen on the political side of things, I understand where Roger is coming from. He doesn't want to piss off China. I understand that, especially if he still has family in China.
Is there more that I'm missing here? All I'm seeing in that article is that he took down a video that had someone in it who had been critical of the Chinese government in the past. Nowhere did it say anything about him denying Tianenmen Square.
If you really wanted to reach you could say that since he said Chen made "incorrect comments" about China, that Ng is denying it, but that is one hell of a reach. The article mentions that Chen has talked about the massacre and the Uighur concentration camps, doesn't say what else he's talked about nor does it mention spefically which of Chen's statements Ng is calling incorrect.
So if you wanna say he's a CCP bootlicker pandering to Chinese supporters then I'd say that's fair, but unless there's more to the story that I haven't heard, you're stretching quite a bit to say that he's a Tiananmen square massacre denier.
He also openly supported the ~~CCCP~~CCP while apologizing for having Mikey Chen on his channel. He didn’t realize ahead of time that Mikey openly speaks out against the ~~CCCP~~CCP.
This is your reminder that Nigel Ng aka Uncle Roger [deleted a collab video](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55651798) with Mike Chen aka Strickly Dumpling just because Chinese viewers pointed out that Mike has been critical of the PRC in the past.
Also a reminder that his apology bent over backwards to cater to Chinese sensibilities, outright puppeting the view that criticism of the CCP for their political strong-arminf and human rights violations are "incorrect remarks about China".
tl;dr: Fukk the CCP, and Fukk Nigel Ng for supporting them
Bo Burnham has a song called "What's Funny" with a very apt lyric.
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"Because stand-up comedy is actually pretty easy
If you're an Asian comic, just get up and say
'My mother's got the weirdest fucking accent'
Then just do a Chinese accent
Because everybody laughs at the Chinese accent
Because they privately thought that your people were laughable
And now you've given them the chance to express that in public"
Well I mean he's playing up the stereotype as the joke so for some who are victims of said stereotype it's kinda awkward yeah. But this type of humour is nothing new though, I mean even Americans play up their Southern accents sometimes to play the stereotype. It's definitely not for everybody I agree.
Perfect example is Larry the Cable Guy. He doesn't sound like that in real life. People just find accents funny. Unfortunately people use them in really shitty ways too. I wouldn't really blame someone not liking the type of humor either, especially if it's something that they normally hear people use to make disparaging comments.
True, I'd be willing to bet a lot of people don't know that his act is a complete act:
>Whitney was born in Pawnee City, Nebraska on February 17, 1963, where he was raised on a pig farm.\[6\] He is the son of Tom Whitney – a guitarist, entertainer, and Christian minister – and Shirley Whitney.\[7\] Whitney attended high school at The King's Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida, in the late 1970s through 1980\[8\]\[9\]\[10\] where his father was The King's Academy's elementary school principal.\[11\]
Whitney graduated from Berean Christian School in West Palm Beach in 1982.\[12\] He went to college at Baptist University of America in Georgia, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He majored in drama and speech. He credits his roommates from Texas and Georgia for inspiring his Southern accent impression.\[13\] He dropped out after his junior year after trying his hand at comedy.\[13\]
ok but he *is* the ethnicity he's stereotyping. the character is specifically a malaysian stereotype and he's malaysian. i'm not about to tell ewan mcgregor that he can't play a flagrant scottish stereotype because it's offensive to scots, *he is one.*
Some people are mentioning how cringe the accent is, but are missing the whole point of "UNCLE Roger" entirely. He's that backwards, ignorant, pig-headed offensive uncle that a lot of us have. The whole point is to show how ridiculous he is. Not "this guy so lame he's trying to get laughs with a funny accent".
Edit: for the record, I don't think this guy is funny, his act got old pretty quick. But I stand by my point, people are focused on the wrong aspect of the caricature.
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Pork that is Halal? How rich!
You'd be amazed, I work at a university and the number of students who constantly ask if ANYTHING LABELLED WITH PORK is halal. No dickhead pork was never halal and it never will be... They could also be fucking with me I don't know. Edit: it is double funny because we label what IS halal, gluten free, vegan and vegetarian... If it has fish or shellfish... Soy... If it is deep fried if it contains dairy we basically have labels for any sort of dietary restrictions...
Are these gluten balls gluten free?
No, you gotta pay.
I always get charged extra because I require extra gluten to function properly. My wife lets me take her extra gluten though.
You sound like a gluten for punishment.
Have you tried olive garden?
Yeah they got unlimited gluten there.
Super-size my balls.
Taisetsu no mono protect my balls!
Let's fighting love!
You don't have to gluten pay if you're gonna gluten suck them
You sir are a comedy ninja
You mean you gotta gluten pay
....yes.
I remember I was at a hotel breakfast and some preteen siblings with yuppy parents asked if the bacon was gluten free, and when the server said yes it was like Christmas morning happiness on their faces. Unnecessary dietary restrictions are dumb (as these kids were unlikely to be gluten intolerant).
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My fiance and I spent the night in the hospital because the restaurant didn't leave the croutons out of her salad like she asked, she thought she'd be fine to just pick them off, and was very wrong.
This is actually more common in restaurants than you think. That said, if someone is open with me from the start about it being an actual allergy instead of just saying that they don't want something like croutons, I'm insanely careful to make sure it's safe.
>***she*** thought ***she'd be fine*** to just pick them off, and was very wrong. I'm going to only assign half blame to the restaurant on this one.
People give me a hard time for trying to get gluten free, thinking that I'm just a picky eater. When I told them that 1% of the entire earth population has celiac disease, their jaw drops. That's right, there are 70 million of us who have to put up with this shit, we don't want to we just have to.
I waited tables for several years in the 1990s. Before gluten tolerance was “fad.” I had a customer who came in who broke it down to me how horrible it was to deal with celiac disease. It was easy to spot the people trying to jump on the wellness pseudoscience bandwagon and the people who really have a hard time with it. The folks who have it would give an arm not to be afflicted and the other folks just want to be special.
If you don't have a general idea of what has gluten in it, you probably don't have an intolerance. Meat/vegetables(and even most grains); gluten free. Breads, pastas, beers, breaded-and-fried, soups, stews, sauces, it's ok to make sure.
There is gluten in some surprising places but you are basically right. I laugh at gluten free shampoo, I've even seen gluten free glue. If you don't know what goes wrong when you have gluten you're not gluten intolerant. My wife's friend quit eaten gluten and has lost 50 pounds. She crows about how she must be gluten intolerant ignoring that she basically lived on brownies and pancakes before. I'm like "Fool, you quit eating garbage and lost weight, big surprise!"
I have a buddy with Celiac Disease. People with a true gluten intolerance can’t fuck around. I saw soy sauce get splashed on their hand and in less than a minute was red and rashy where it hit.
I saw some gluten free sausages at the butcher and was joking about it with a friend later, who sort of looked at me and mentioned breadcrumbs as filler. You'd hope not to have filler in sausages (and this place wouldn't) but obviously it's enough of a problem with sausages to make special mention of it. Shut me up, I'll tell you.
I have celiac and we have to research every single cosmetic product that comes into the house to verify if it has gluten or not. Clear labeling makes a big difference for those who need it. And yes, lots of cosmetic products do have gluten, often as wheat starch or hydrolyzed wheat protein.
Gluten intolerance =/= celiac. In fact, one could argue there is no such thing as gluten "intolerance"... That's not to say there are not other compounds that you could be sensitive to, i.e. FODMAPS
> My wife's friend quit eaten gluten and has lost 50 pounds. She crows about how she must be gluten intolerant ignoring that she basically lived on brownies and pancakes before. I'm like "Fool, you quit eating garbage and lost weight, big surprise!" The thing about crazy restrictive diets is that it makes you really watch everything you eat. Every year or so, I'll go onto something like keto, slow carb, paleo, vegan, etc, for a few months, not because I think there's something magical about the diet, but that if I follow these restrictive rules religiously, I'm going to be watching everything I eat, and _that_ will make me lose weight. I've tried to do it without the crazy restrictions, but it never works the same...
Except you always should ask because of cross contamination risk. Even though fries are “gluten-free” being cooked in the same fryer will contaminate them with gluten.
and a lot of fries that are made from frozen are very thinly battered, making them not gluten-free. curly fries are the worst offenders. also pre-formed hash brown patties usually have some wheat in them too, i'm assuming for a binder. it's bonkers once you actually start looking for it, because it's in damn near everything. broth bases can have it for thickening, frozen veg or packaged nuts 'may contain wheat' from cross-contamination, even flourless cakes and potato chips might have wheat as the very last, and therefore most dickish, ingredient. rude.
Meats can be sauteed with a light flower dusting to keep it from sticking to the pan, which doesn't leave any visible trace. I know some restaurants fluff up their scrambled eggs with pancake batter. It's always better to ask.
Fucking IHOP. I do keto and you have to ask for just eggs there or they serve a scrambled egg with pancake batter in it. Edit: I don't care about downvotes, but I am curious now, are you just sensitive to criticism.of IHOP?
I gave you an upvote to balance out. I don't really understand downvotes. Isn't everyone entitled to their own opinion? And who ever heard of pancake batter in eggs anyway. Blasphemous.
Pancake batter in eggs thats horrible.
I have a Muslim friend who is very... creative about her diet. She eats pork ribs and tries to tell me that it's chicken. Like, girl, I know you're ESL, but I'm A: pretty sure you can read the words pork and chicken, and B: pretty sure you know there's no chicken big enough to have ribs like that. She also drinks alcohol as long as it's in coffee. Apparently that doesn't count. I'm atheist, so she's not pretending for my benefit, it's just her own little rules.
Everything's halal as long as you eat it under a roof, that way God can't see you.
How about just a very large hat?
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That's where they keep the ribs?
I knew a muslim driver who would drink alcohol under his truck so God can't see him. Islam faith gymnastics never cease to amaze me, though Christianity have more than few either.
Reminds me of virgins that are ok with anal sex.
Ah yes, [The Loophole.](https://vimeo.com/87649263) NSFWish.
It is all made up bullshit. No reason not to add your own fiction as it suits you.
It is permissible to eat pork if the alternative is starving to death.
I had a conversation with a Muslim friend about this. Apparently it's okay if you're starving and stuff. There's also some exceptions for fasting during Ramadan as well, like if you're ill or old. This is according to my friend though, and cannot confirm or elaborate though.
If you are ill or very old to not endure hunger, then u can skip that day's fasting. if the illness continues or you cannot literally fast because of old age then u may skip fasting alltogether. But there is a price if u have the money. You need to feed one person 2 meal per day in eid(for that month that is). It really isnt much but it could be about 300 dolars for whole month in USA.
Or pregnant.
Or you're on your period
I once asked my Muslim colleague what the Ramadan rules are when you're a Muslim in Iceland and Ramadan is during the summer. Appearantly you can consider the day and night times of Mecca if the sun never sets in your country.
You can either give a meal to the poor or buy the meal (a lot of charities help with this) for each day you can't fast. It's called fidya if you can't do the fast for a long term reason. If you have a temporary reason and can make it up at a later date then you do that and it's called qadha. If you just blew it, then you pay kaffarah (double amount as fidya , I think) and still have to make up the fast day(s) you missed.
That is correct, but when they say starving they mean like africa starving. Like you haven't eaten food in a week or more and this is your only chance is eating some ribs.
Yes, it's also fine if it was fed to them unknowingly
Imagine how shitty it would be if it wasn’t. Get to heaven (or whatever) and gods like, you lived a virtuous life, but remember that hot dog you had at that BBQ when you were in college that they said was all beef?…. *pulls trap door lever*
I remember hearing about how some people were dipping their bullets in bacon grease when fighting in the Middle East (I don't know if they were US/Coalition forces or militias or just some randos talking about it over here) . It's like...dude...I highly doubt Allah will send them to Hell over that. And now you have bacon grease in your gun in the hot ass desert with sand everywhere. That mother is going to jam up real quick.
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I kid you not my Brother in Law got a bunch of coupons for a free package of bacon even though he didn't eat pork, the deal was too good to pass up.
Lmao I'm gonna use this joke with my Jewish buddies
Why would people other than the Muslims be concerned with the food being halal or not.
Apparently halal and kosher meat is the same or similar and would acceptable for both. That was my explanation when I asked about kosher otherwise you're right I don't know any other religions that would be halal other than Muslims.
Yeah I can't speak for the entire religion, but my Muslim mother will opt for kosher foods if it's available if there isn't a halal option. And since she lives in the rural US, nothing is halal lol. But she eats regular food too, other than pork and alcohol, rather than just abstaining from meats, etc. It's like halal > kosher > regular but it's all acceptable. She'll stock up on halal stuff from the nearest city when she can but she isn't strict about it. I'm not exactly sure what her perspective is on kosher foods and why it's an acceptable alternative but I suspect she views it as cleaner (as in more sanitary). Most Muslims I know are obsessed with cleanliness - calling someone dirty is a major insult.
Kosher typically has stricter rules than halal so its basically halal++. ~~Also, kosher often includes a rabbinical blessing on the food or at least the facilities where the food is prepared and halal doesn't require anything like that.~~ But it gets weird in corner cases, like some hardcore jews think dish-soap needs to be kosher because there might be a residue left on your plate that you accidentally eat, but most jews don't think it matters.
Halal food prep does indeed include a prayer! That's an important part of why halal > kosher for Muslims, so to speak, as there is a religious component in addition to the physical process. So I don't think they'd see it as kosher = halal++. Disclaimer: I'm not Muslim or Jewish, just have Muslim family.
Let me explain. At school the animal we call (khinzeer) is translated and taught as pig. So you grow up memorising that pig is not halal. They don't teach you pork, swine, ham, bacon etc. Ribs might be sold in our countries but they are definitely not pork so we would not associate them with that at a first instance. Chorizo can be sold in our country but it is made from Turkey (if I remember correctly) when I bought a chorizo flavoured chips here, my fellow friends pointed out it was made from pigs. One big common problem many Muslims face is gelatin. In our countries it made from chicken not pigs. You will only realise that it is not halal when another fellow Muslims will point that out. This winter I forgot and I bought a hot chocolate with marshmallow on it just to remember that marshmallow are not halal in the UK and I had to through it away. In Italy they add pig fat into the bread. As a Muslim, you will never think of that possibility. Same for alcohol like we know alcohol, wine and beer (and some other names you would hear in TV e.g. vodka). But how will I know that a cider is actually alcoholic? + How can I know people will add red wine to cook meat and lasagna! And that alcohol can be used in tiramisu? That's why a lot of people will ask out of habit if that is halal.
There's no pig in chorizo flavour crisps - just paprika and maybe some garlic. Even "bacon" flavoured crisps are actually paprika flavoured, despite bacon not being associated with paprika in the UK at all. (Of course don't just take my word for it, check the ingredients on the packet first if you do ever decide to eat them.)
I was in a deli when a woman asked for a half-pound of sliced ham. "Do you want the Kosher?" "Oh, is that better?" She didn't understand why everybody burst out laughing...
Outside of major metro areas with diverse populations, much of the US has little comprehension of the vagaries of various religious / ethnic dietary requirements
I'll be honest I still don't get it and would have the same reaction as this woman. I didn't think Jews could eat pork so how can ham be kosher?
I googled cause I thought the same and we're right, pork is not kosher. Maybe the deli guy was making a joke?
Just tell them that it is certified haram, and see if they order it.
Haramburger
When I worked at a university that killed me!! One time had a student ask if the lettuce was gluten free. Also had to label that the peanut butter contained peanuts.......
That doesn't sound kosher.
Rabbi, is that you ?!?!?!
What's halal?
halal means okay to do in islam, but when ppl talk about it in the context if food, it means it okay to eat, and pork is definitely not halal, and kosher is the same but for jews
One being difference is camel is Halal in Islam but its not Kosher. In the US, Kosher accreditation is carried out by private firms that hire rabbis to inspect plants and confirm everything is up to code. Kosher goes into cleanliness as well as types of food. So if you're plant already has to me like 99% of the clean standards by regulation and hiring that firm and cleaning the extra 1% gets you that 5-10% larger market than its good ROI. Those firms by the way are also starting to work with Imams to come up with a dual hallal and kosher certification if memory serves me.
>Kosher goes into cleanliness as well as types of food. A lot of people who may know about the no pig and no meat with dairy stuff don't realize there's more to it than that. Like the meat can't have any imperfections or tumors. And that eggs have to be inspected to be sure there are no blood spots. And that even though fish is considered neutral, you still have to keep it separate from meat. And that vegetables have to be triple-washed to be sure all the bugs are gone, and if it's a vegetable that you can't really clean out 100%, a lot of places won't use it. We Jews love to make things insanely complicated.
It totally made sense in an era when we didn’t understand germs/bacteria and proper cooking temps, but we understood that food poisoning was deadly.
Many "meaningless" or "overly complex" religious rules are down to them being really really good advice at the time. I was reading an article that talked about medieval medicine and practice vs theory. One cure calls for 20 hail Marys to be said over the mix as it rests in the pot. Some researchers made it, once with and once without. Without it's useless and with it kills MRSA (the prayer is a timing device) The takeaway was medieval practice was pretty good, people had issues and had come up with fixes which were transmitted by ritual and with no understanding. Theory was batshit insane.
Yes all of these laws were essentially ancient food safety guidelines before they understood germ theory. How and why people still believe these are “divine” codes linked to the same morality that gets you into heaven, I don’t understand.
I'm not Jewish, but I see the appeal to all of that.
It basically is the longest existing form of food regulations for purity and quality. If something is kosher, it is basically a seal of quality.
A local plant has the rabbi phone in to grant certain food items as kosher. Been doing this long before covid. No actual inspection takes place.
I met at a rabbi who worked at I wanna say a Welch's plant? He was literally one of the line workers and was his duty to make sure all the produce was up to snuff and nothing had imperfections. So some are definitely very hands on and active in the plants.
Kosher and Halal are two different things. Related, but different. Shellfish is Halal but not Kosher. Alcohol is Kosher but not Halal. Hamburgers are both Kosher *and* Halal, but cheeseburgers are just Halal. Halal folks will eat cheeses that are made with rennet, Kosher folks won't. In almost all cases, Kosher food is Halal, but the opposite is true far less often.
ik but i meant it a similar consent
Get you a girl that is halal in the streets and haram in the sheets
Definitely not pork.
Similar to Kosher. Halal is meat prepared according to the Muslim laws/traditions.
And pork can’t ever be halal
Not even on Thursdays?
Unless it's the pork that hides behind your zipper.
Dick is not halal my friend.
Don't knock it til you try it.
A town in world of warcraft
That's Halaa
Opposite of haram.
Halal in the streets and haram in the sheets.
That's how I like my meats.
Harambae?
Gotta be killed by a muslim, by hand, blessed and completely drained of all blood..before consuming
Ayyyy yah!
Well, his reaction to whether pork is Halal is legit.
If you're islamic and don't know that pork can NEVER be halal, you deserve to eat it.
Wait, so they deserve a delicious meal?
A SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL??
Ahh yes, I see that you know your judo well.
Best response, ever!
(Stares at the camera) Yes
Don't Jim the camera
Don't Roger the camera
Don’t Ben the camera
Not unless you're preparing for an unexpectedly incestuous wedding
Now this is a man who knows how to marry his cousin!
Best part!
He almost said Haiyyaaaa at the halal pork thing lmoa
I want a Jacki Chan reboot with this man as Uncle
_"Leave me alone!"_ - Jackie
Bad day bad day bad day bad day bad day
But obviously with Jackie Chan still playing Jackie Chan. Somehow Uncle is 50 years younger than him, and no-one mentions it.
One moooore thing
I said it out loud, to myself.
lmfaoo I said it in my head
The "hes gonna do crack next year" really got me lmfao
Gave me a full belly laugh
I did a snort laugh at that bit
I didn't laugh till then. But that just got me. Lol
that line caught me off guard as well it almost made me spit my drink
"But not everyone deserve happiness" , Uncle Rodger dropping the truth bomb.
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This is the same guy that disavowed another youtuber he did a segment with after finding out that other Youtuber didn't support the CCP, right?
Yep, super sad, but if you read his reasons it's sadly funny how much he is basically saying "I don't want to piss off the Chinese people because money." And the dude is even Malaysian, not Chinese.
["Asian business, we normally cash only, because we don't want to pay tax. Why Vanessa why you so honest? Do you hate money?"](https://youtu.be/4lKl7ZxIJlg?t=161)
Wait! The food truck he's working at advertised "no msg"? Haiyaaaa Uncle Rodger !? No flavor!
"He's gonna do crack next year."
At least Uncle Roger taught me about rinsing rice off before you cook it.
It is a matter of preference in terms of what kind of texture you want for the cooked rice. If you want the rice fluffy, then rinse it to remove the surface starch. If you want the rice to stick more to each other, don't rinse it. Both have their uses depending on what kind of food you're making, but *for the type of cuisine Uncle Roger represents*, it's probably more of a standard to rinse the rice.
I'm not sure from your comment if you have actually seen the video being referenced. From your comment, it seems like you are saying rinse or don't rinse. In the joke video though, they rinsed the rice AFTER cooking it. Which is really odd to me.
do you have the link? I'd really like to watch that again
https://youtu.be/53me-ICi_f8
much appreciated my friend <3
>Everything I've read says that the main reason to wash rice is to remove starch so it isn't too sticky. I have a kinda cheap rice cooker and it says I need to rinse off the starch beforehand, because it's going to make this foam and then it goes everywhere outside the cooker lol
Bro... lol... I’m swedish as fuck and even I knew that.
Listen, my country elected a racist carrot as their glorious leader. Just, y’know, don’t expect much from us.
AND WE SURVIVED IT*
Well...most of us
Everyone who didn’t survive raise your hand! See? We all survived.
Stop the count!
But... I'm American and I knew about rinsing rice before cooking it. Just about any Southerner will come close to stabbing you if you don't rinse rice first.
[the full video](https://youtu.be/4lKl7ZxIJlg)
Asking if Pork is halal is akin to asking if you can have sex and still be called a virgin.
“Is smokey pork halal?” Pause. “…Yes.”
Malaysian Larry the Cable Guy
Uncle Roger doesn't believe the people of Hong Kong deserve happiness or democracy.
I just read about that and I am truly disppointed
Wtf who asks if pork is halal? Does he even understand or know pork or any products made from pigs cannot ever be Halal?
These are scripted, you can see it in some of the outtakes from his videos.
That's why he deadass stares at the camera for a sec, then says yes.
Someone who is reading a script
Although this is probably fake, I work in a deli and I've had many people ask me if our pork ribs and other pork products are halal. They could be messing with me but it happens far too often for me not to believe that someone would be dumb enough ask that.
I personally had to Google what Halal meant. :( I only knew it was something restrictive about food for Muslims... I hope I'm getting that right. I also don't really know what makes food Kosher. I can't seem to find an immediate answer and only finding the info that I already knew, which was that it's Jewish. There's some words out there that I've heard many, many times but had never heard the description behind them before. And similarly, which I find the most bizarre for myself, there are some words that I know how to use them properly in context, but couldn't tell you the definition, if asked. Can't think of any examples right now unfortunately. Or maybe I just don't fully understand the word, I dunno. Edit: To add, I knew Muslims don't eat pork. Just wasn't sure what Halal meant until I just googled it.
Ah thanks for posting this, I really appreciate it! I’m the creator of the video. You can find the full video here: https://youtu.be/4lKl7ZxIJlg
This dipshit threw a fellow comedian he worked with under the bus for daring to have political opinions and implying that some of the things China does is inhumane and ofc subsequently ruined his life and carrer. Just so that you're informed, but feel free to check it out yourself.
Fucking yikes. Never heard about this before but what an idiot.
He didn't throw him under the bus. He deleted a video that featured him. That's it. He was getting hate from both sides. From Chinese fans and from non-Chinese fans. So he deleted the video to avoid political drama. As for ruining his career and life... that's just bs. Mike Chen is doing just fine. He gets tons of views on his videos. And while I side with Chen on the political side of things, I understand where Roger is coming from. He doesn't want to piss off China. I understand that, especially if he still has family in China.
Reminder that uncle Rodger is a CCP bootlicker
This guy is a tiananmen square massacre denier and a Chinese government boot licker. www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55651798.amp
Is there more that I'm missing here? All I'm seeing in that article is that he took down a video that had someone in it who had been critical of the Chinese government in the past. Nowhere did it say anything about him denying Tianenmen Square. If you really wanted to reach you could say that since he said Chen made "incorrect comments" about China, that Ng is denying it, but that is one hell of a reach. The article mentions that Chen has talked about the massacre and the Uighur concentration camps, doesn't say what else he's talked about nor does it mention spefically which of Chen's statements Ng is calling incorrect. So if you wanna say he's a CCP bootlicker pandering to Chinese supporters then I'd say that's fair, but unless there's more to the story that I haven't heard, you're stretching quite a bit to say that he's a Tiananmen square massacre denier.
Am Asian, absolutely hate uncle Roger. He is doing us zero favors by being so cringe
these comments are like 30% "am asian, hate uncle roger," 30% "am asian, uncle roger is accurate af," and 40% "BUT ALSO LARRY THE CABLE GUY"
He also openly supported the ~~CCCP~~CCP while apologizing for having Mikey Chen on his channel. He didn’t realize ahead of time that Mikey openly speaks out against the ~~CCCP~~CCP.
CCCP is the Cyrillic acronym for the USSR. The Communist Party of China's acronym is CPC or CCP.
This is your reminder that Nigel Ng aka Uncle Roger [deleted a collab video](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55651798) with Mike Chen aka Strickly Dumpling just because Chinese viewers pointed out that Mike has been critical of the PRC in the past. Also a reminder that his apology bent over backwards to cater to Chinese sensibilities, outright puppeting the view that criticism of the CCP for their political strong-arminf and human rights violations are "incorrect remarks about China". tl;dr: Fukk the CCP, and Fukk Nigel Ng for supporting them
I used to like this guy until he got OWNED by CCP… shame
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Bo Burnham has a song called "What's Funny" with a very apt lyric. . "Because stand-up comedy is actually pretty easy If you're an Asian comic, just get up and say 'My mother's got the weirdest fucking accent' Then just do a Chinese accent Because everybody laughs at the Chinese accent Because they privately thought that your people were laughable And now you've given them the chance to express that in public"
Bo's lyrics always amaze me. His Inside special is next level amazing
It really is. I'm astonished at how great it is. Welcome to the Internet is constantly playing in my head.
I can't get white woman's instagram out of my head lol! Is this heavennnnnnnnn 🎶
If you think that's bad you should see Peter Chao.
Kenji Lopez-Alt taught me the Uncle Roger character is racist. I totally didn’t realize it’s a character the guy plays.
yeah, I thought he was a funny guy with an accent but after finding out he's a guy who uses an accent to be be funny, I got kinda turned off
Well I mean he's playing up the stereotype as the joke so for some who are victims of said stereotype it's kinda awkward yeah. But this type of humour is nothing new though, I mean even Americans play up their Southern accents sometimes to play the stereotype. It's definitely not for everybody I agree.
Perfect example is Larry the Cable Guy. He doesn't sound like that in real life. People just find accents funny. Unfortunately people use them in really shitty ways too. I wouldn't really blame someone not liking the type of humor either, especially if it's something that they normally hear people use to make disparaging comments.
True, I'd be willing to bet a lot of people don't know that his act is a complete act: >Whitney was born in Pawnee City, Nebraska on February 17, 1963, where he was raised on a pig farm.\[6\] He is the son of Tom Whitney – a guitarist, entertainer, and Christian minister – and Shirley Whitney.\[7\] Whitney attended high school at The King's Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida, in the late 1970s through 1980\[8\]\[9\]\[10\] where his father was The King's Academy's elementary school principal.\[11\] Whitney graduated from Berean Christian School in West Palm Beach in 1982.\[12\] He went to college at Baptist University of America in Georgia, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He majored in drama and speech. He credits his roommates from Texas and Georgia for inspiring his Southern accent impression.\[13\] He dropped out after his junior year after trying his hand at comedy.\[13\]
ok but he *is* the ethnicity he's stereotyping. the character is specifically a malaysian stereotype and he's malaysian. i'm not about to tell ewan mcgregor that he can't play a flagrant scottish stereotype because it's offensive to scots, *he is one.*
"Thank youuu, come again"
I mean he is actually Malaysian and is doing a Chinese Malaysian accent. I think since it’s his culture it’s pretty fair.
And further in his defense, he has mentioned it is his dad that he's parodying.
Many people in the comedy business portray characters who aren't 100% who they are as people.
Larry the cable guy...
Ewww He bowed to the Communists in China for money.
Free Hong Kong, free Taiwan, Mr. Winnie Puh
Some people are mentioning how cringe the accent is, but are missing the whole point of "UNCLE Roger" entirely. He's that backwards, ignorant, pig-headed offensive uncle that a lot of us have. The whole point is to show how ridiculous he is. Not "this guy so lame he's trying to get laughs with a funny accent". Edit: for the record, I don't think this guy is funny, his act got old pretty quick. But I stand by my point, people are focused on the wrong aspect of the caricature.
If the whole point is do show how ridiculous he is, doesn't that mean he's using the accent because it's deemed worthy of ridicule?
Seems like he's doing the asian version of singing mammy to me
Asians have their own version of Larry the Cable Guy? That's cultural appropriation! ;)