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Originally Posted by Gpsma
How this thread got to be a discussion about my tagline is amazing. A couple of weeks ago a poster sent me a pm suggesting places i might find Halal or Kosher meats.
Here is my reply..
You obviously are writing about my tagline.
Let me explain..lol.
Im neither Muslim or Jewish. Im not seeking Halal meats.
The tagline grew out of a post I made years ago asking about Halal Chicken and Rice. Having worked in NYC for my entire career, I grew fond of the Halal Chicken and rice bought from the many vendors on NYC streets.
I posted saying we need some halal vendors here in tv. I think i wasnt even living here yet but had visited many times and intended to retire here. The post was basically tongue-in-cheek but it created a mini firestorm of replies. Many were quite angry that i wanted Arab food because “they blew up the World Trade Center”. If you know the poster GracieGirl, she was funny...saying that “where i come from we dont eat that fancy food..we like beans over corn bread”..lol.
Some posters chimed in and pointed out that food is not political. But one poster finally explained that i was simply talking about street vendor food that is very prevalent in NYC.
I always promised GracieGirl that if i could perfect the recipe here, i would make it and deliver her some of this “fancy” food. Unfortunately, i could never get it right.
So i decided to use that tagline.
But thanks for letting me know where i could get Halal...perhapsThey have hala chicken and rice.
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As far as my post goes, I apologize to you. I was guilty of doing what others have done to me----not understand a joke for what it is and go off on it. On a thread about golf a week ago, in responding to the suggestion that ambassadors be given more power to move the pace of play along, I suggested that would risk turning them into "golf Nazis", an obvious humorous reference to Seinfeld and the "soup Nazi". Obvious to most, but the same poster on this thread that has a broomstick where it doesn't belong went on again about "hate" and "Nazis", like a real Nazi would have anything to do with a golf ambassador.
What I posted about 9/11 is the mere tip of the iceberg regarding my personal experience that day and in the aftermath. No, it is not right to condemn 1.5 billion for the actions of 20 and I realize it. I did have a problem with the total silence from that part of the world in not condemning the attacks. So I am a bit sensitive to anything that reminds me of it. But no problem with food!
