In a cafe, and a woman has just complained (funny)

[QuestionableMouse]

She'd ordered a bacon sandwich and it's just been delivered to the table. She's now moaning because her bacon sandwich has a tiny crumb of black pudding on it. And she doesn't eat pork.

I feel for the poor staff having to explain which animal bacon comes from 😬

(And no, there's no vegan bacon on the menu so not a mix up!)

Hahaha I like undisclosed black pudding

@AnApparitionQuipped

Did you miss that this poster put that word in inverted commas? The poster was quoting others.

No, I just misunderstood. Didn't realise that's what the quotes meant.

Happy to be wrong though. No shame in it for me.

Sorry I didn't pick that up at all. My mistake.

Of course you are hen.

And yet here you are trying to argue that a white woman in a Yorkshire cafe might have reasonably expected bacon to not come from a pig.

Be honest here, you’ve made a bit of an arse of yourself.

Welcome to mumsnet pull up a pew 🤣🤣🤣

I don't think anyone has been laughing at, mocking or making fun of someone's religious beliefs in this thread (though I may have missed it).

However, is it really against MN rules to do so? I can't see anything like that in Mumsnet Talk Guidelines: www.mumsnet.com/i/netiquette . Are there other rules (perhaps unwritten ones) that I need to know about? Or is one poster asserting that it's against the rules just because they think it should be?

I was finished off by "Global Nomad" - gloriously pretentious😂😂😂

Eh, they are all funny. What are you talking about.

Being po-faced is worth mocking too.

I think it would be considered 'not in the spirit of the site' to mock someone's religious beliefs, or possibly fall under the 'hate speech' bracket, depending on what was said,.

You really are scraping the barrel with that jibe. You know nothing about me or my health.

Spam spam spam and more spam 😂

I think that we’ll just have to agree to disagree on that point.

Is spam ham?

Which point?

I would lay down money that anyone who doesn't eat pork for cultural or religious reasons knows exactly all the forms edible pork can take -- ham, sausages, gammon, porchetta, lardons, many pâtés, black pudding and of course bacon. And many others too.
If you don't eat it for those reasons, you will obviously need to know how to avoid it.

But turkey and pork look and taste nothing alike... how would these people not notice they are eating an entirely different not even species but catagory of animal (mammal vs avian).

You would clearly notice a difference if you ordered bird and where served pig, I could understand if the first time the ordered it and where confused because they realised its not turkey but eating it repetatively unaware it an entirely different food to what they thought they ordered is wierd.

I thought a cattle grid was for getting the mud off the cows' hooves so they didn't make the farm muddy.

I'm an intelligent person with a good career, but fuck me, I can be stupid sometimes 😅

I've spent YEARS battling with the tin opener and only discovered a few months ago that the handle splits in half to make it easy to pop on and off. No one told me this!!

So many things I don't seem to grasp. I'm also autistic (yet I walk among you and most people would never know mwhahaha.....).

Most of my FB is me just sharing the latest idiotic thing I've done. The fact I'm a giant dickhead means I'm a constant source of entertainment for myself.

I DO know bacon comes from a pig, but it's the kind of mistake I'd be likely to make. And I would find it hilarious if someone pointed it out to me.

The point is you can laugh at yourself and other people without being cruel. Finding something funny doesn't mean you are mocking them or sneering. It's just a humorous observation.

My beloved, departed dad had a neurodegenerative disease which included an aggressive dementia. In amongst all of the challenges, fuck me, there were some unintentionally funny moments. He managed to gain access to the CT scanning control hub, simultaneously locking out all of the staff, and refusing to let anyone in. He was there with complete control over this million-pound equipment looking extremely pleased with himself. To this day I don't know how the sneaky bastard managed it 😅

In other news, in the last few years I've developed an allergy to bacon (but not black pudding). Think it's the curing process but not sure. Either way, I can't eat bacon any more. My life is a pale shadow of what it once was.....

You can have it with spam in fact you can have anything you want as long as it’s spam.

Tbf, black pudding makes me vomit. Profusely. Even before I knew what it was so not psychological. Eat all other bits of pig. But even I would have at MOST asked for a clean plate, probably would have got a tissue and wiped it off.

Maybe it was the blood from black pudding that she didn't like the thought of . The cafe were wrong to talk to her in that way and should have replaced immediately.

In what way?

PS it wasn;t even black pudding ....

Yikes, this thread took a weird turn very quickly! And my funny story that the OP reminded me of got totally lost. Or maybe I'm the only one who finds it funny that someone has been a vegan for 12 years for ethical reasons, depriving himself of things he previously enjoyed (he mentioned he loved cheese and other dairy), but all the while indulging in mayonnaise thinking it was vegan. He did end up with egg on his face when it was explained to him.

'I don't like black pudding'

'I don't eat pork'

These are not the same?

Nope - she said that she didn't eat pork and it wasn't even black pudding anyway