No Pork on a Halal Cart, Even if You Work for the Food Network
I don’t know much about Dinner:Impossible, but apparently a recent episode of the show featured Iron Chef Michael Symon cooking on three carts parked in Times Square: Wafels & Dinges, 2008 Vendy Award Winner Calexico and a random Halal Cart. You can see clips of the show here, including one where Symon is told he can’t cook pork on the halal cart. Awesome.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:06 pm, November 24th, 2008 under Asides.
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Hahaha did no one tell him what halal means?
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uh, duh, isn’t halal just what every street meat cart calls itself?
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I saw it—great episode! That Michael Symon guy knows his shit! And yes, “Halal” essentially means Kosher–which means definitely no pork…
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@wcbs-tv – that made me laugh out loud. could be the comment of the week…
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I was watching that episode as well. I always that Michael Symon was jewish. Aside from sounding jewish, he did some sort of ethnic show with Wayne Harley Brachman also on Food Network. I don’t know what the hell he was thinking trying use a halal cart to cook pork.
That aside, the episode was pretty weird. They used the carts for what seemed to be 30 minutes. Most of the cooking was done elsewhere.
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LOL at cbs-tv. Symon is an idiot if he doesn’t know what halal means. Sheesh. The (real) CBS gets a pass because, well, they’re just a bunch of empty talking heads who steal their ‘reporting’ features from hardworking blogmeisters.
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Halal and Kosher practiced by those who believe very conservatively would not consider the two mutually the same. But the concept behind them is to ensure a level of ethicial pureness, preparation and slaughter of both food stuffs and animals that god would approve.
End of lecture kiddies. :)
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Halal also forbids insects so I guess flies or other unnamed bugs never land on those grills during the day or even when they’re in storage overnight
Uh huh
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Actually wayne both Halal and Kosher forbid all insects except a few types of locusts. :)
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‘God’s’ never had a good Bacon butty then.
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mmm… locust and lamb combo over rice.
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Symon’s not an idiot. He’s a Catholic boy from Cleveland. Give him a pass for not knowing what halal means. And judging from the time I spent in Cleveland myself, I’m not surprised he wasn’t familiar with it. I’m sure it’s improved since I was last there, which was over 10 years ago, but it wasn’t the most culinarily diverse place in the world. Although I used to get great Chinese, oddly enough…
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Chinese? Those people are mostly gristle.
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@zach: does my comment as “wcbs-tv” score me an invite to the next street-meet-palooza? was totally bummed i missed the first.
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God eats street meat?
I saw part of the episode.
That man loves pork.