Halal food

[santelmo]

I know this is an unusual query and its a long shot but here goes. We have friends visiting us in June and we will be in the Levkas/Preveza area. One of the party has dietary requirments and can only eat halal meat. Does anyone know if such meat is available in the area. I cant say that I have heard of a Muslim community around there but who knows. We will have a car available to us.

 

[temptress]

If you can't get halal then kosher is also fine

 

[CCJ]

I know this is an unusual query and its a long shot but here goes. We have friends visiting us in June and we will be in the Levkas/Preveza area. One of the party has dietary requirments and can only eat halal meat. Does anyone know if such meat is available in the area. I cant say that I have heard of a Muslim community around there but who knows. We will have a car available to us.

Do you have to provide the guest with documentation of origin :disgust:

 

[Heckler]

I know this is an unusual query and its a long shot but here goes. We have friends visiting us in June and we will be in the Levkas/Preveza area. One of the party has dietary requirments and can only eat halal meat. Does anyone know if such meat is available in the area. I cant say that I have heard of a Muslim community around there but who knows. We will have a car available to us.

Can? Or Will? And as someone else has said, how do they know? Bit like me in Oz, what's in the meat pie mate? meat! Yeah we know that but what kind of meat? Meat meat! Right I'll have a cheese sarny then!
Stu

 

[santelmo]

no documentation required

 

[Lon nan Gruagach]

If you can't get halal then kosher is also fine

really? Since when is a rabbi an imam?

 

[alexsailor]

Omg. Where is the world going to... Religion everywhere!

Teach them how to fish...

Greece is not a muslim country. So they can stick to vegetables or try local food and try to adopt their behaviour to a foreign country - as we do when we visit muslim countries and have no access to beer or “gyros”.

 

[jordanbasset]

Omg. Where is the world going to... Religion everywhere!

Teach them how to fish...

Greece is not a muslim country. So they can stick to vegetables or try local food and try to adopt their behaviour to a foreign country - as we do when we visit muslim countries and have no access to beer or “gyros”.

I did, also pork pies and bacon ...delicious mmmm

 

[shan]

You are unlikely to find Halal meat in Lefkas/Preveza. More likely in Athens. Don't despair though because the Greeks prepare many excellent vegetable dishes.

 

[jordanbasset]

You are unlikely to find Halal meat in Lefkas/Preveza. More likely in Athens. Don't despair though because the Greeks prepare many excellent vegetable dishes.

Agree fish is okay as well, although shell fish is debatable

 

[derekbland]

I did, also pork pies and bacon ...delicious mmmm

What about the pork sausages

 

[JumbleDuck]

really? Since when is a rabbi an imam?

Because the restrictions are, broadly speaking, the same, many Jews will eat halal when kosher is not available and many Muslims will eat kosher when halal is not available. However, the more observant on both sides will care about the ritual as well as the the results and for them, as you suggest, kosher and halal are not interchangeable. Best for the OP to ask her/his friend if kosher will do. If it won't and if halal is not available, it's probably easiest just to go vegetarian for the duration of the visit. Once you've ruled out meat, halal is very much easier to comply with than (orthodox) kosher, which is quite extraordinarily complex. The acceptability of bread, for example, depends on the religious observance of the person who switched on the oven in which it was baked.

 

[jordanbasset]

What about the pork sausages

Nice, but prefer bacon

 

[temptress]

really? Since when is a rabbi an imam?

the food is consider ok which ever way round you want to go.

 

[KellysEye]

I don't know how may people saw this but a Muslim was asked in a TV interview about Halal, he replied "God told us we can kill animals".

 

[capnsensible]

What VHF channel does He use for his net and what time are His broadcasts?

 

[coenvanwyk]

Fish is good if you are not sure the meat is halaal.

 

[macd]

"God told us we can kill animals".

In most cultures, this is considered a civilized thing to do before eating them.

 

[KellysEye]

>In most cultures, this is considered a civilized thing to do before eating them.

Kill means kill which is Halal in other religions animals are stunned before killing.

 

[macd]

Kill means kill which is Halal in other religions animals are stunned before killing.

Do assorted scriptures have any guidance on the killing of vegetables? This may be of particular interest to you.