McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut say no to request to offer halal meat…

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Lots of saltiness in this thread today.

Is salt Halal?

 

[Machjo]

Greetings from Shenzhen. We'd visited Hong Kong today (next to Shenzhen) and we're having nice weather right now.

Anyway, I challenge Hong Kong's vegetarian restaurants to offer non-halal dishes.

 

[Jinentonix]

Lots of saltiness in this thread today.

In other words, you've nothing to contribute to the conversation as per usual.


Nothing salty about some goof basically demanding private enterprise entertain his stupid beliefs though, is there.

 

[Sons of Liberty]

All this over junk food?

 

[Ludlow]

Whiner material running a bit thin.

 

[Cannuck]

In other words, you've nothing to contribute to the conversation as per usual.


Nothing salty about some goof basically demanding private enterprise entertain his stupid beliefs though, is there.

Stop being so silly and salty. Nobody has demanded anything. Haters just gonna hate

 

[lone wolf]

Do they take lettuce on their Big Macs?

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Do they take lettuce on their Big Macs?

A Big Mac is and only is:

• 2 all beef patties
• special sauce
• lettuce
• cheese
• pickles
• onions
• on a sesame seed bun

 

[mentalfloss]

Obviously this is because it's more expensive to produce.

But hey if this leads to a backlash that that hits their pocketbooks, guess who's gonna be jumping on the halal train.

 

[Ludlow]

I worked at McDonalds when I was 16. Hated that job. ` ~ If McDonalds does not serve Moozlem fair,,then the whiners need to eat some damn place else. Stay home and kill a goat and pray over it and have at it ya fanatics.

I don't know why it is in this day and age that dummies who don't like the way something is just don't disassociate themselves from it. But no,,,,they feel the need to whine and complain. Like fangernails across a blackboard.

 

[AnnaG]

McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut say no to request to offer halal meat…AND MUSLIMS ARE PISSED

Mufti Muhammad Arshad
McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut say no to imam’s request to offer Islamic-certified meat, despite his claim it would be shrewd business.

Hong Kong’s three biggest fast-food chains have rejected a call by Hong Kong’s chief imam to offer halal meat in their restaurants.

Mufti Muhammad Arshad contacted McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and Pizza Hut to request that they use halal meat in some of their outlets. He said it would not only be good for Hong Kong’s Muslims, but also a shrewd business move.

Halal is an Arabic word that means “permissible”. Halal meat comes from an animal slaughtered according to Islamic law. That means Allah’s (God’s) name must be pronounced during slaughter, the instrument used must be very sharp to ensure humane slaughter (the animal must be slit at the throat), the animal must not be unconscious, and it must be hung upside down and allowed to bleed dry.

Eating blood is not halal. Pork is not halal, nor are certain cuts of meat, such as from an animal’s hindquarters.

Arshad said he sent letters to the fast-food chains, but McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut all said that they had no plans to introduce halal meat in their outlets. But Arshad said it would be only a matter of time before they signed up, as McDonald’s and KFC served halal food in other Asian markets, such as Singapore.

Halal certification of restaurants began in Singapore in the mid-1990s. Singaporean food blogger Daniel Ang says that the likes of Le Steak, a new halal steakhouse in the Jalan Kayu district, has been “packing the crowds in” at the weekends. In Hong Kong there are already halal outlets at Hong Kong Disneyland and Ocean Park.

“It’s disappointing that we could not convince the companies,” Arshad said. “It doesn’t have to be Hong Kong-wide. In the main areas, like Central, Wan Chai, Tsim Sha Tsui, the New Territories and at the airport, it would be a great service. The companies have to realise there is a need for this and that it is good business for them.”

Tourism sector lawmaker Paul Tse Wai-chun said he would welcome anything that would increase the diversity of Hong Kong and cater for people from different religious backgrounds. He said it would also be good for local businesses.

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Well, perhaps they should start their own choke n pukes er I mean fast food restaurants. Or brown bag it. (I have a friend here that will not eat restaurant food at all so she brown bags it when she goes into town).
Competition is what makes capitalism work. I can whine that the local Japanese fast food place uses imitation crab rather than the real thing, too, but if they used real crab, prices would be higher and people would likely go to the A&W or Quizzno's or whatever else is in the food court. Or I could open up my own Japanese fast food place or just eat Edo's food and make my own real crab dishes at home.

Buy a f-cking franchise and offer a halal option. If it floats, it floats, if it sinks, it sinks. Don't force current franchise owners on that McBarge.

Egg Zachary.

 

[Cannuck]

Obviously this is because it's more expensive to produce.

But hey if this leads to a backlash that that hits their pocketbooks, guess who's gonna be jumping on the halal train.

Can you imagine the saltiness if McD's brought that to every restaurant in Canada

 

[petros]

McDonalds offers salt free fries. Try them, you obviously have sodium issues.