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Old 29 May 2007, 04:55 AM
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Hello Kitty 'Cat meat' shawerma

Health authorities have shut down a popular restaurant in Jahra (Kuwait) for allegedly mixing cat meat with frozen meat and touting frozen meat as fresh.

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news...IxNjE1NTk1Mw==
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Old 11 December 2007, 12:27 AM
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There's a popular Russian joke about shawerma stands:

Customer: Is this meat fresh?
Cook: Of course! I personally heard it mewing yesterday!

I haven't heard it about any other type of food establishment, only shawerma (or kebap, or Döner) stands.

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Old 11 December 2007, 07:05 AM
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I missed this one. AIUI, Muslims do not eat carnivore flesh. I reproduced a similar (but historical) story that I picked up from Singapore and ended up with a storm of email from Singaporean Muslims stating carnivore is banned and cats could not end up in human dishes (I got reported to the Singaporean authorities who sent me an email stating Singaporean Muslims may have overlooked the sort of hardship that drives people to eat normally banned food )
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Old 11 December 2007, 08:03 AM
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I missed this one. AIUI, Muslims do not eat carnivore flesh.
I don't know if that is true (although I can ask someone when they arrive in work in oh, about 20 minutes) but I have heard the reason for not eating pigs is because they're omnivirous.
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