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!)

For goodness sake! She doesn't eat pork - probably for cultural/religious reasons - in her world 'bacon' is a non pork product - so that makes her 'stupid'?

If that were true, it would make her eye-wateringly stupid, yes.

I doubt there'll be a single person in the UK who wouldn't check their bacon isn't from pork if they can't eat it.

I mean why wouldn't you check? 😆

"Not in the spirit of the site" isn't in the Mumsnet talk guidelines. Is it an unwritten rule? It's so vague and subjective as to be practically meaningless anyway. As for hate speech, only an extremist would consider "laughing at someone's religious beliefs" to constitute hate speech.

So it seems like it's not against MN rules after all.

@ExhaustedFlamingo This is a fantastic post and a lot of it echos my own experiences and outlook. Laughing makes so many things better. I remember at my FIL funeral there was a bit of a mishap and I looked over to find my MIL trying her very hardest to not burst out laughing. We still laugh about it now. It bought levity to such a difficult situation.

I can’t laugh at your bacon allergy though. You poor poor thing.

Ultimately MNHQ can delete anything the moderators feel is inappropriate.

Haggis is great! Anybody who is willing to eat the less challlenging bits of an animal. e.g. chicken nuggets, bacon sandwich, should really be prepared to face eating the rest of the animal too.

Maybe they could start with the posts telling muslims and jees that they are actually ok with pork if it has no blood in it and supporting it by article about how they can't eat pork😂

in the last few years I've developed an allergy to bacon

Thoughts and prayers, Flamingo

And yet, for god knows what reason, here you are.

This thread’s done me the world of good though. I often wonder if it’s fair that I earn such good money while others really struggle, and now I think that given what passes for “normal” out there that it’s fine.

This reminds me of when I was out to dinner with a colleague. He was Hindu and said "Well I can't eat beef so I'll have the lasagne". I never said a word as I just didn't know what to say!

"Haggis is great! Anybody who is willing to eat the less challlenging bits of an animal. e.g. chicken nuggets, bacon sandwich, should really be prepared to face eating the rest of the animal too."

I just don't like the taste of haggis. Have tried it several times but just really don't like it. It's not about what's in it for me, just the taste.

It's a thing, apparently. Aka glomads. Whether they ever glamp in glyurts I don't know but I'm taken with this helpful clarification:
Unlike traditional nomads, global nomads travel alone or in pairs rather than with a family and livestock.

Hmph, not even a couple of emotional support goats?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_nomad

Glomad sounds like something GP hould look at 😂

How DARE you imply that Muslim or Jewish middle aged, white women do not know that bacon is made of pork? Are you calling us stupid?

Same, it’s the seasonings used that aren’t to my taste

Finally! I agree with @PaidthepiperTuneismine

Replaced what? Her bacon sandwich she'd ordered because she decided she doesn't eat pork?

Genuine question for everyone saying in some countries bacon is not pork. What countries use the word bacon for a product that is not in fact pork? And if I went to these countries and ordered bacon what would I get?

Are you saying that only non-British, white people with a local accent are too stupid to know that bacon is made from pork? Have you any idea how insulting that is?

It was burnt bread

Why not report those posts, then, instead of joking about them on the thread? This is exactly the point I have been trying to make from the outset - people are very quick to declare themselves kind and liberal when it suits them, but they think nothing of following the crowd like sheep when someone starts a bit of (as they see it) mildly amusing jeering.

If we want to live in a genuinely kind and inclusive society, we have to behave in a kind and inclusive way in the small things - the insidious mockery of those who are different - not just standing up in a performative way when the more 'obvious' examples of bullying and discrimination appear.

I'd like to know too

I really suspect that there are none. I have seen the description used for non-pork “bacon” in hotels in Muslim countries, but these are hotels that cater to European tourists, there’s no reason to assume that anyone outside of this would be using the word.

In some countries it’s often Turkey. But surely you’d check. My kids didn’t eat pork when young (dads religion, so his request until old enough to decide for themselves) so I always checked this kind of thing.

Love the username @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

Haggis is great! Anybody who is willing to eat the less challlenging bits of an animal. e.g. chicken nuggets, bacon sandwich, should really be prepared to face eating the rest of the animal too.

Erm ... but chicken nuggets are the more challenging bits. "Beaks & arseholes" - made cosmetically palatable via MRM (mechanically recovered meat) machines.
my-greek-food.com/mechanically-separated-chicken/

Yum!

Turkey bacon. But you’d check, surely?