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 GJ> Apparently the rabbis are
 GJ> not as fussy as some imams.

Some rabbis. Some imams. There's a full spectrum of
belief in both religions.

 There was an incident that I heard of in
 GJ> Fiji where an Australian contractor doing some work at an abattoir
 GJ> walked across the yard where pigs had been held, and then across a
 GJ> yard where cattle were waiting for Halal slaughter.  The local imam
 GJ> saw that, and went quite ballistic!  It was not until profuse
 GJ> apologies had been made, and the yard hosed down and cleaned
 GJ> thoroughly that the imam calmed down.

No offense, but the Australian contractor was pretty insensitive
here. That the convenience of having pigs and cattle in the same
facility was allowed at all was quite a stretch of liberalism, and
any action that would endanger that understanding should rightly
have been punished in some nontrivial way, probably financially.

 GJ> Individual interpretations of the Q'ran and the Torah can vary a lot.
 GJ> Manny in LA described himself as a "pork-eating Jew", and a Muslim
 GJ> friend in Darwin is happy to just push bits of pork to the side of her
 GJ> plate and eat the rest.

I don't think that the interpretations differ so much as the
seriousness with which people hold them. Manny of course would
not be able to find a scriptural justification for his behaviors.

 GJ> As the object of the old rules was to ensure safe eating

That's a back-rationalization. It may well be true (or have
become true at some point), but it's not clear that the original
intent of the prophets was to ensure food safety.


Egg Salad Spread
cat: sandwich, filling
yield: 2 c

6 lg hard-cooked eggs, peeled and finely chopped
3 Tb onions, finely minced
2 Tb mayonnaise
2 Tb sour cream
1 1/2 ts Dijon mustard
1 1/2 ts fresh lemon juice
1/2 ts salt

Combine the chopped eggs and onion in a medium bowl,
tossing them together gently to mix. In another bowl,
stir together the remaining ingredients. Add this
dressing to the eggs, and gently toss all the
ingredients together just until they are well
combined, but the eggs are not mushy. Refrigerate
until needed.

Spread on lightly buttered bread and garnish the
open-face sandwiches with chopped fresh chives, a
dab of sweet red pepper or green pepper spread,
ground paprika, or slices of hard-cooked egg
topped with salmon caviar.

German Life magazine 1/2012

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