At a time when Republican leaders are increasingly targeting the state’s growing Muslim communities, barbecue joints like Goldee’s that offer halal options are thriving in Texas. Across the state, Muslim pitmasters are gaining recognition for putting their own spin on one of Texas’ most iconic culinary traditions.
At least a dozen barbecue spots now serve halal meats, including Yearby’s Barbecue & Waterice, run by Black Muslim couple CJ and Sabrina Henley, soon-to-be in Plano, and Levant Mediterranean BBQ, a restaurant with locations in Houston and Frisco and whose all-beef menu includes a brisket shawarma sandwich.
“Now there are so many options, and for us to have highly rated barbecue, it’s a blessing,” said Haris Ghaffar, who drove an hour from Celina and stood in 90-degree weather for nearly two hours with a friend for the halal options at Goldee’s.
If the article was “Humans eat meat” and your response was “ewww” it would be very easy to understand what you were reacting to.
You provided no context for your comment, purely assuming that anyone reading it could interpret it correctly, which would only be possible if they were familiar with your views of every topic listed in the headline and pictured in the preview image. It’s ridiculous to assume strangers are on the internet are aware of your specific views of meat, Texas BBQ, halal food selection/preparation, and Muslim people.
At least three other people were “able” to assume I was referencing the giant floppy slabs of bloody flesh in the photo without needing hundreds of pages of explanation.
Unless - uh oh - three people thought I was saying “Muslim people are gross” and were agreeing with that??
Man this comm is super weird. Go figure.
Honestly, have you ever seen anyone say they don’t like a group of people by saying “Eww”? Really? Here on Lemmy? That’s just such a bizarre reaction to me.
Honestly my assumption was that you were opposed to non-pork BBQ. Again, you provided no context and are now placing the blame on others for your poor communication skills.
Also, by definition halal meat is not bloody. It has been drained of blood as part of the preparation process.
Wow. Never even considered there was such a thing. Wait - is there such a thing?
Hm. Well it’s bloody at some point, innit.
Not sure if this is sarcasm, but I’ll bite. Yes. Pork is haram (not halal) and this article is literally about BBQ that does not include pork. That’s not to say it’s vegan, it’s using beef and meats that are not traditionally associated with BBQ like turkey and lamb.
No, I mean are there people who like BBQ but only pork BBQ? I’ve never heard of one.
So the “thing” you hadn’t considered was the opposite of the thing that you had quoted? It must be very frustrating to be you. I imagine most people don’t understand what you’re trying to say.
Hol up chief:
You assumed I was opposed to non-pork BBQ. So I, seeing this batshit assumption to be a good mile-and-a-half away from “meat is gross” figured that can’t be close to true. I hadn’t ever considered it.
Not the opposite of what I quoted (that would be you assumed I was opposed to non-beef BBQ. Which is also bonkers but whatever). The exact same thing as what I quoted.
Hell, it’s Texas, maybe there’s some clutch of crazy bastards who love BBQ but only Pork BBQ. Could that be? If so - if there is some kind of cultural existence of non-pork-hating-BBQ people, then maybe it makes sense that people saw my comment under a guy holding two giant slabs of bovine breast meat that said “Eww” and they thought “OMG he’s one of those non-pork-BBQ-hating people that we know don’t like halal BBQ and are therefore bigots!”
But your response proves that, no, you’re just incapable of conceiving a diet without meat. That’s not unusual. Sadly. But points for creativity I guess. You actually constructed some alternate meat-eating theory to qualify my comment, rather than consider it be about the meat itself.
Which, again: is such a weird assumption.