Timeline for Is it rude to ask if the food contains pork or alcohol?
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| Jan 13, 2017 at 14:18 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jan 2, 2016 at 21:15 | comment | added | user3669 | '...that is far less sacrosanct than religious reasons' - it should be the opposite. The environment, personal health and common sense should always override all the human-made belief systems out there | |
| Jan 1, 2016 at 12:51 | vote | accept | Nean Der Thal | ||
| Jan 1, 2016 at 4:54 | comment | added | Pharap | @SteveJessop They aren't just stories, It does happen. Attitudes towards vegitarians vary greatly and there are still a lot of people who have strong anti-vegitarian opinions. | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 21:07 | comment | added | Chris Thompson | @corsiKa You're making an assumption that my friends made their decision based on spiritual reasons which is not accurate. Obviously many people do, but my particular friends made it for arbitrary reasons and in face, some of them liked to hunt (which didn't make much sense to me but whatever). | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 21:01 | comment | added | corsiKa | Why would you consider someone's belief against killing animals to be less important than their belief against eating a food for religious reasons? That seems like a trivial distinction, considering they're both dietary decisions made for spiritual reasons. | |
| Dec 30, 2015 at 21:46 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | Agreed. When we have some of my kids Muslim or Jewish friends over, we just make sure we don't cook anything with pork or alcohol in it that day. (We don't usually anyways, so it's trivial to exclude it). We've got our own dietary restrictions in the house (gluten allergy, in our case) so we have to read labels regularly. It's not a big deal, and I'd feel really bad if someone didn't mention it and then had a hard time eating while they're with us. | |
| Dec 30, 2015 at 14:38 | comment | added | Mark Daniel Johansen | But you should say at the time you are invited, not wait until the meal is being served. If the hosts have made pork, and they put the plate in front of you and then you ask, what are they supposed to do now? Also, if you are the only guest, and you tell the host about dietary restrictions at the time of invitation, a polite host will prepare something that you can eat. If this is a big party and there are many guests, accommodating them all may be more difficult. On the other hand, the bigger the party, the more likely there will be many different foods, and they could get something in, etc. | |
| Dec 30, 2015 at 13:11 | comment | added | AKS | As a brown, Buddhist Sri Lankan, I can also say that nobody would be offended. But I would appreciate if my guests let me know them at least a few days before. | |
| Dec 29, 2015 at 10:02 | comment | added | Vince | It sounds common to me for the host to ask also simply about tastes. One might simply not like some ingredients and the host may ask about it in advance. | |
| Dec 26, 2015 at 21:36 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | Also, that while the internet is full of horror stories of hosts who without any provocation pull utterly foul moves like deliberately and stealthily sneaking ham into vegetarians' food, this is not typical behaviour no matter how defensive such people might get if called out on their awfulness. | |
| Dec 26, 2015 at 14:31 | history | edited | Chris Thompson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 25, 2015 at 17:17 | comment | added | Chris Thompson | @user568458 nailed it. Totally right. Also give them them plenty of notice so they can adjust accordingly. Usually it's not hard to work around dietary restrictions, but then again I'm not an all-pork-all-the-time, raging alcoholic ;) | |
| Dec 25, 2015 at 17:15 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | In my experience of such conversations, it's not that you ask or why you ask but how you ask. Asking with a smile in a way that makes it clear that you appreciate your host's efforts and are making it as easy as possible for them to accommodate you, and any reasonable person will be fine. Ask in a way which implies you disapprove of what the host offers or ungratefully expect special treatment, and many people will feel put out and defensive - whether it's allergies, ethics, religion or anything else | |
| Dec 25, 2015 at 16:24 | review | First posts | |||
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| Dec 25, 2015 at 16:22 | history | answered | Chris Thompson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |