It Is All In The Mind.
Hindus don’t eat cows because they are holy while Muslims and Jews don’t eat pigs because they are unholy. So if I have it right, an animal must be unholy before the Hindus will eat it but it must be holy before the Muslims or Jews will eat it. Then do I have to have a steak and a pork chop on my plate so they can cancel each other, just to have a normal, balanced meal?Many, many years ago I had a Jewish colleague and he arrived at my home one Sunday just as my wife was serving our Sunday lunch. We were having a leg of pork. He came to fetch something and I did not know him that well.
Hell, that chicken and gravy looks delicious. Don’t you want to give me some as well, he said
Colin, it is pork, I said.
It is only pork if you say so, he said looking very disappointed.
Ok, I said somewhat puzzled, thinking that he may be offended by the pork. You’re right. It is chicken.
Can I have some, I’ll pay for it, he said with a smile.
Realizing that he was a bachelor, I invited him to join us for lunch and told my wife to dish up another plate of food. We sat down and he finished his plate before asking if perhaps there was more of the ‘chicken’ and my wife complied.
After lunch we agreed to cook the same food in four weeks time and he undertook to pay for all the ingredients if my wife would prepare it. We agreed. It turned out that this Jew boy had a weakness for pork.
This went on for about five years, even after he left the company and continued until he was transferred to Johannesburg. I wonder if he found somebody there as well to cook his ‘chicken’.
One Sunday a month he would arrive, sit down for lunch, look at the food and ask me what it was, pointing at the pork. It became a ritual.
Colin, it is chicken, I would say and he would ask. Are you sure?
Yes, positively, I would say and we would enjoy the food. He always had a second helping of ‘chicken’ before leaving the money for the next meal before departing.
One night at a work function I asked him what would happen if he ate pork without knowing about it. Nothing, he said looking at me with a straight face. The sin will be on the one who lied to me.
I guess there will be no mercy on me.
Have a great day and eat nothing holy or unholy.
Comments (53)
So the sin was on me.
Absolutely true. What we eat does not define our person and it is never for us to judge anybody about his religion. As you said, it is something between him and his Creator.
But I do like a well prepare leg of pork even tough I am really a beef eater.
If I have any choice it will always be beef. It does not have to be a steak all the time. Stews, curry & rice, whatever; beef is my meat of choice.
I'm an old cat and Whiskers are for kitty cats. I never liked sushi and regarding mice; I want MEAT. There just ain't enough on a mouse to eat.
I'm sure he enjoyed it and, in all probability, still do.
I dont care about religion as i m not religious but i dont like pork so never eat it. Parma ham anytime.
I expected a bit of sympathy here.
I will eat - and enjoy - pork if it lands up on my plate but only seldom will I buy pork.
Here in Africa with its abundance of wild life we get a very big variety of meat. I have eaten a lot of them; from rabbit, porcupine, crocodile, hippopotamus, snake, tortoise, hedgehogs and all kinds of antelopes. If a thing eats grass, I will eat it. I am a bit more picky when it comes to meat eaters. Like for an instance, we don't eat jackals, wolves, lions, leopards, etc.
Porcupines are a pestilence and can destroy a potato harvest very quickly. We used to hunt them with garden forks. Makes a very good barbeque when spit-roasted.
I like smoked bacon but not crispy. I basically just warm it up.
Beer to wash it down? You are more likely to need holy water.
Would rather spit on that spit roast!
Maybe we taste alike because we eat the same junk.
I'm sorry you feel that way but they are a pestilence with few natural enemies and have to be culled. The garden fork kills it quick and clean; as effective as a bullet. It is good meat.
Now you see, that is what makes women so dangerous.
I just knew you would come up with a witty answer.
Good though.....hahaha
Because if you do, then you are in trouble...
Hell is waiting for you...
I'm just teasing you there....
Anyway, I don't eat pork, or red meat for that matter. All for health reasons, nothing religious. My diet comprises of pretty much fruits and veges.....again for my own health reasons...peace:
My personal choices are grilled pork spare ribs, chicken, beef. Love BBQ ribs on the grill with a good sauce on them! Yummy!
All in a day's fun!
Quite so. Meat is meat and a man must eat!
I'm sure a good number of them knows exactly what they have been missing and miss it no more.
Eishh, that is a long story but basically it was because I cooked better and I was not very good at washing dishes. We both wanted to dry up and nobody wanted to wash up.
My quack advised me to take more liquids but I don't like beer that much. So wine will have to do. I love a light white dry wine.
My quack advised me to take more liquids but I don't like beer that much. So wine will have to do. I love a light white dry wine.