Vette_76

I am!!

I may even be needing some time off sick - the emotional trauma is just too much!!

ajm

Tiggs,

Since your sermon today is about accomodating the needs of others, how about you accomodating our need for a good moan?

richiewong

Sod pork, eat deer

jasey

I'm sure a British Muslim would get the same treatment wherever he went .

Vette_76

Eat sod, pork deer!!

jasey

Dear Sod,

Eat Pork.

richiewong

Claudius

It is right IMO to provide food that doesnt contain pork for muslim visitors. The problem here is that they went too far and their will to please the foreigners affects the locals' food choice.

Sure, it's not that much of a deal to have to eat something else but pork for a week or so (I have not eaten pork in months, dont like it that much), but the decision is wrong in principle. You dont give up your culture for a week to please a muslim. Be assured that they would never do this for you.

Alec

Is this visitor a customer?

Jaybird-UK

What food dont you eat as a result of a belief then?


I see nothing wrong with it personally, shows respect for others.

OllyK

I don't eat fish because I "believe" it tastes like rotten fanny - now please close all the fish and chip shops down.

I am all for providing an alternative option for somebody who does not want / like / approve of the options provided for the majority, however, to prevent the majority from having what they like because of a single individual is ridiculous.

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

I'd be pretty annoyed if the all day breakfast is somewhat lacking for a week

Suresh

I think it's good manners to accomodate your guests, but poor form to abandon your own culture for theirs just in case you might perhaps offend them.

Is there anything that those preaching tolerance would actually be prepared to stand up for? If you lot had been in charge in 1939, I glaube dass wir nur Deutsch sprechen mussen.

und tschuess...

Zuresch

jasey

Which part of Any Culture is it that must have PORK on a SALAD Cart ?

Oh yes - The wind-up culture of T'Internet

OllyK

None says you "must" have it, but I don't see why, if it normally is on there why it should be taken of just for the sake of 1 visitor.

If you had a vistor who's culture said they couldn't go out unless they were naked with a broom up their *** would you be as happy to give up your clothes well?

jasey

No - everyone in our company has to have the broom up their **** - It's cost savings . Go to any country in the world and most of the locals will talk to you in English - So Brits having to Give up a Pork ******* Sausage for a week pails into in-significance when it comes to tolerance .

ajm

The point is that you can be tolerant by offering the guest non-pork options without removing it from the menu altogether....

...unless of course you are being patronising towards his culture by assuming that he is unaware that we eat pork in the UK?....

OllyK

Go to a major city and be pig headed enough to refuse to try and speak their language and you may be right. Get out in the sticks and it tends to be a different story, and I try to speak the language (however badly) of the country I am in.

Now I agree that arranging a nice hog roast for a Muslim (or Jewish) visitor would be in pretty poor taste, however, I still don't see why pork had to be removed from the menu for everybody else. It's all very "little Johnny doesn't like playing football so none of you can".

Would beef be removed from a menu in Pakistani for a visiting Hindu? Would anything be removed from the menu in China for a visiting anybody?? I doubt it, but I would hope that as a host you ensure that there is something available for your guests to eat that meets with their needs whatever that may be.