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…And it isn’t Religion I want out of restaurants, it’s people who are here in my country for the wrong reasons.
And how do you drink Kosher coke??:confused: :confused:
Do we know, with any certainty, why the vast majority of Muslims are in this country? And let’s not forget that a lot of Muslims in the U.S. are American citizens–even native-born citizens, at that.

You drink kosher Coke the same way you do any other Coke: open the can, and drink it straight from the can, or pour it into a glass (with or without ice).

Valke’s post raises a good question, though. How is McDonald’s marketing of halal products in an area where there’s a large Muslim population any different than Coke marketing kosher products in areas with a large Jewish population?

P.S. to Valke: Is there any difference between typical kosher standards and “kosher for Passover”? My understanding was that there’s to be absolutely no yeast in the house during Passover, but I would have thought that there was otherwise no difference–and that (unless it normally has yeast in it?) Coke would either be kosher or not, and whether or not it’s Passover would be irrelevant. Have I missed something?
 
I’d rather eat Kosher than Muslim. (No offense!)

Kosher Coke sounds good! How can I get some? The lid should be shaped like a small Yamakah. (spelling?)👍
I use the work “Kippah” so I don’t have to worry about spelling Yamulkah.

THe reality is Kosher coke is exactly the same as regular coke. The Rabbi is just making sure the equipment being used to make and bottle it is not also being used to make or bottle non-kosher stuff.
 
BTW bella, I’m in NY right now and I don’t see any Menorah’s being displayed. You may not know this but Rockefeller Center displays a small christmas tree ever year. Maybe you’ve seen it on TV.
Ok, you can call me Bella if you like b/c I am Italian and bella means beautiful in which I am…thank you.
Anyway, if you REREAD my posts, I said NATIVITY, not Christmas tree…I have a Catholic newspaper if you want me to read you the article. Also, this happened in Palm Beach Florida, my favorite shopping place. (I must of been Jewish in my last life), but they caved in after much protest. It shouldn’t even come down to this Valke. Itis Christmas, the birth of Christ and nothing more. You know this.

What do you call 500 lawyers on the bottom of the ocean? A good start. Haha 😃
 
Sorry, Valke–looks like we cross-posted, and you already answered my question.🙂
 
That’s exactly the problem! Muslims want all kinds of concessions made to them but they don’t reciprocate! Give them an inch, and they take a mile! Why can’t people see that! They say that they respect other faiths, but that’s just taqqiya! Unless we sit up and take notice, all our freedoms will be eroded little by little under the tyrannical Islamic boot!
That’s right Booklover!!! :amen:
 
But this is a marketing strategy. Not a legal requirement.
It is a marketing strategy, and a very good one at that. Someone was quick on the ball and is now making lots of money.

But it is also a question for the larger picture. In allowing specific cultural food on such a large scale, what must they also allow?

Oh yes, I am alluding to a bit of a slippery slope or a complete conclusion here, which is only because I am speculating, so of course we can’t start tossing any concrete information around because none exists.

Personally I think that Mc Donald’s will soon regret this move as they will be encouraged to meet other needs. Pretty soon their offerings will cancel each other out.

That was the idea of my example, see? Everyone seems pretty cool with the idea of kosher or halal prepared food. What about food prepared in the name of satan? I think the people on this thread would have a hey day if satan were the topic in the article and not allah. But the line is quite arbitrary, so how can they be happy with one thing and not another?
 
Uh-oh. YOu’ve cracked our code!
LOL!
Amazing what you can find out when you actually read the labels on packages:D
But I was attempting to point out to BELLA #2 that many things in this world are KOSHER…
 
But it is also a question for the larger picture. In allowing specific cultural food on such a large scale, what must they also allow?
So what are you going to do with all of those AMERICAN companies that cater to the jews…GOsh how dare they cater to the jews and make nearly everything that is prepackaged in the supermarkets KOSHER:rolleyes:
 
Acts 15:20
Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

Since, I consider Allah to be a false god, I would not eat there.

Romans 14
The Weak and the Strong

1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. 2One man’s faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. 4Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
5One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. 8If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

9For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. 10You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11It is written:
" ‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will confess to God.’ "[a] 12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

13Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way. 14As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food** is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. 15If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died. 16Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil. 17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, 18because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.

19Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. 20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.

22So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.**

I think I’m leaning this way on the issue, too… Since Muslims know a different god than the one identified in the Holy Scriptures (denying the Trinity and the diety of Christ, for instance), exactly to whom is it being offered or blessed by? Since the blessing being called down on the animal is not from the God we recognize or accept, I also would try to avoid eating food dedicated to a god who I, as a Christian, must believe is false. Otherwise, I am saying that all religions are equal. While the final judgement is God’s alone, it seems that avoiding the food in question would be the only logical conclusion I can arrive at–given the circumstances as I understand them here. On the other hand, avoiding hamburgers altogether is probably the more sensible move.
 
LOL!
Amazing what you can find out when you actually read the labels on packages:D
But I was attempting to point out to BELLA #2 that many things in this world are KOSHER…
Excuse me? :confused:
 
Thanks Meedo for the explaination. I have heard the term halal but I did not have a correct understanding of it.

Are there any rules regarding the preparation of non-meats (fruit, vegetables, grains, & fungi) for them to be halal? Are fish handled in the same manner as meat?

I would not want to buy a halal McD burger, but they are certainly free to offer them if they like. I don’t usually eat meat anyway.
 
I don’t have an issue with Kosher, I buy Hebrew National hot dogs. Kosher has been around forever, Halal has not. My ex-husband was Jewish. But that was before my calling and I raised my kids Catholic anyway. I would not be oficially “Jewish”. Good alimony though. Haha 😃

Valke you listening?? you would of made a fortune!!
 
I don’t have an issue with Kosher, I buy Hebrew National hot dogs. Kosher has been around forever, Halal has not. My ex-husband was Jewish. But that was before my calling and I raised my kids Catholic anyway. I would not be oficially “Jewish”. Good alimony though. Haha 😃

Valke you listening?? you would of made a fortune!!
Halal has been around forever…perhaps not here in the States or our supermarkets but it has been around.
So your issue is just with anything Muslim?
 
I don’t have an issue with Kosher, I buy Hebrew National hot dogs. Kosher has been around forever, Halal has not. My ex-husband was Jewish. But that was before my calling and I raised my kids Catholic anyway. I would not be oficially “Jewish”. Good alimony though. Haha 😃

Valke you listening?? you would of made a fortune!!
Is length of time the only difference, then (and presumably halal’s been around since the seventh century, so granted it isn’t as old as kosher requirements, but still…)?

In a country that’s been built on immigration and that prizes both religious freedom and free enterprise, I don’t really understand why that should make any difference.

Were someone saying, “It’s a legal requirement for you to serve halal foods,” I’d have a major problem. But no one is saying that. Instead, what we have here is a business freely deciding to cater to a ready market for halal products.

Why is that a problem?
 
Christian, jew, muslim, hindu… whatever…

one thing for sure, eating McDonalds too regularly will hasten the scheduled time for meeting your creator significantly.

but that is a different thread entirely.
 
You really are funny…and someone else asked me about a Bella. She/he must have the same fighting spirit as me.LOL.
Ohhhhhhhhh so that’s how you make Coke. Is it specially delivered to your house? How do you get it? And how do you know it was supervised? 😃 Does the Rabbi carry a gun? 😃
You use a lot of the same phrases as her.

I’m not permitted to reveal any more of our secrets regarding coca-cola.
 
It is a marketing strategy, and a very good one at that. Someone was quick on the ball and is now making lots of money.

But it is also a question for the larger picture. In allowing specific cultural food on such a large scale, what must they also allow?

Oh yes, I am alluding to a bit of a slippery slope or a complete conclusion here, which is only because I am speculating, so of course we can’t start tossing any concrete information around because none exists.

Personally I think that Mc Donald’s will soon regret this move as they will be encouraged to meet other needs. Pretty soon their offerings will cancel each other out.

That was the idea of my example, see? Everyone seems pretty cool with the idea of kosher or halal prepared food. What about food prepared in the name of satan? I think the people on this thread would have a hey day if satan were the topic in the article and not allah. But the line is quite arbitrary, so how can they be happy with one thing and not another?
I don’t think it will be a very good marketing strategy to make “satan friendly” food (whatever that is – devil’s food cake? spam?)
 
I don’t have an issue with Kosher, I buy Hebrew National hot dogs. Kosher has been around forever, Halal has not. My ex-husband was Jewish. But that was before my calling and I raised my kids Catholic anyway. I would not be oficially “Jewish”. Good alimony though. Haha 😃

Valke you listening?? you would of made a fortune!!
I hope that whatever our differences, that if there are ever issues that pop up in your life that are too difficult to handle alone, that you will consider retaining me 🙂
 
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