We were talking about this at work the other day because a couple of my students are organising a workshop on Arab writing and we've got loads of people coming from the Middle East, and the majority will want halal food. So rather than seek out a caterer who will do halal meat, the students have asked me to make sure the catering's all vegetarian.
One of the women was saying how hilarious she always finds it that when when she's been travelling in Arab countries, she finds most people are completely baffled by the idea of a vegetarian meal and most things inlude animal products somewhere along the way (not necessarily muscle-meal, but stock or other dead-animal-derived products), and then they come to the UK and that's what they get given!
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on 2009-11-05 10:57 pm (UTC)One of the women was saying how hilarious she always finds it that when when she's been travelling in Arab countries, she finds most people are completely baffled by the idea of a vegetarian meal and most things inlude animal products somewhere along the way (not necessarily muscle-meal, but stock or other dead-animal-derived products), and then they come to the UK and that's what they get given!