certain races prefering certain meats?

[OTTMummA]

I have just started working again, in a food retail enviornement and i have noticed that people of certain races prefer a certain product containing a meat, and i can actually 95% of the time guess exactly what they are going to choose.
ive never really noticed this before and was wondering if it has always been this way or is a new thing, or a random coincidence happening where i work?
am very curious to find any info on this so any input would be great.

what do you mean by races?

Oh really?

I think you'll find most people prefer

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do you mean you have just noticed that people have religious and cultural dietary restrictions?
Jewish and Muslim people don't eat pork, Hindu people don't eat beef, many Sikhs are vegetarian...

food retail environment?

is that a caff? greggs? mcdonald's?

this is a strange and bizarre thread to start

I prefer goat.

What MrsBadger said. Even if someone is not a practising insertreligionhere they may have grown up with the feeling that some animals are for eating and others are not. The same way that horse/dog are considered food in some parts of the world and not others.

Oh, and a girl I knew from Argentina said that only beef was considered 'real meat'. Anything else was paractically a vegetable.

(don't go to Argentina if you are vegetarian)

the 100meters prefers lamb shanks

I love a hedgehog fritter, me.

I am half Latvian, half Guatemalan, half Episcopalian, and half cut.

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It's such a bind cooking in my house. Dh has his meat, I have mine and the children being mixed race of course have to have their own sort. Sigh.

Eh?

goat! umm nope, not goat
Its not just me that has noticed it, many people i work with have aswell, some may be due to religious reasons, but some im not sure about.
theres also young students who seem to order the same thing aswell, i suppose ive noticed it because i tend to like a variety of different tastes, and get bored with the same thing, so to order the same thing again and again seems odd to me.

OTTMummaA......you are in mortal danger....run away now

Erm, do you mean, there is one specific product which your "food retail environment" stocks, and which you find to be particularly a favourite of some people? Many people like the same thing, and many people order the same thing quite regularly. My takeaway has a very long menu, but 9 times out of 10 I'll fancy sweet & sour chicken.

WHERE do you work?

Is it Greggs?

If so, you'll have to either change your name or never darken mn's door again.

Oooh, this will go down well.

Lead-balloon like, in fact.

Why is everyone getting at the OP for discussing cultural differences?

My dp- non-British, will happily eat things that are still crawling round the table while I prefer my fishy things to have stopped making their ultimate bid for freedom myself. We hardly ever find lamb here, because people tend to prefer veal, or even horse. Fact. Not criticism. (though I reserve criticism for the things dp is trying to spear as they run off the edge of the table)

The Chinese and Taiwanese students I worked with always use pork and chicken over red meat, while the Japanese don't have much to do with dairy.

It's interesting and enlightening. Not eyebrow raising if someone wants to talk about it fgs.

It may be Bucharest but you can't seriously expect a blanket statement like that to go unchallenged.

I don't see any problem in discussing cultural differences - but it's the way she's going about it which feels like it's going to become insulting any minute when she gets into the detail.

If she said "Is it just me or do fewer Japanese people eat burgers?" then we could discuss that, in the clear knowledge of what she's talking about.

Before I offer a , I would be interested to know the specifics: which races, in the OP's opinion, prefer which meats?

I think MrsBadger has it actually - cuture and religion often dictates what someone can eat. However, I like MrsMargate's take on it.

I think it's the way it's phrased.

Esentially the OP is saying 'different cultures have different eating habits' but in a oddly roundabout way, imo, and I don't know why she didn't just say (for example) 'Sri Lankan people go crazy for our sausage rolls'.

But either way I think it's an odd thing to notice - I wouldn't notice, myself, tbh so perhaps that's what strikes me as curious about the OP.

Rindercella what is your ethnic background and which of the following would you choose for lunch today:

aardvark curry
bald eagle stroganoff
nice ham

???

Maybe it would have something to do with the food one is brought up with. I am bisto and chips kind of a girl.

I think it is an interesting hypothesis - what is my favourite meat? I am caucassian and of protestant background.