Plan B

[Sysman]

I did wonder about the tesco thing - not the horse meat, but the pork. If your religion prohibits eating pork it could be really upsetting.

From Charlie Brooker: A big lump of horse ran into your burger?

Waitrose, for example, offers a top-of-the-range Heston Blumenthal Lamb & Cucumber burger: £3.50 for two, so you might want to consider applying for an interest-only mortgage first. They look pretty good and I'm sure they taste magnificent – like a recently slaughtered ovine angel softly bleeding to death on to your tongue – but if you squint at the list of ingredients on the back of the packet you'll see the words "pork shoulder". Because that's what you look for in a lamb burger – lashings and lashings of pig.

Oh but sorry Muslims! Sorry Jews! You should have read the fine print. Never mind. Try escaping to the posh sausage section instead. There you'll find Heston's Duck & Sour Cherry Sausages, which sound even grander and less likely to contain anything oinky.

But hang on a minute. Ingredients: 45% duck, 39% pork shoulder, squished into a hog casing. That's a lot of pig for a duck sausage. Maybe it's a bonus, a sort of Easter egg.

What would be appropriate compensation for missing out on a place in paradise?

Getting your 72 virgins right now?

[AtW]

So what do you think is $700k fair?

Not enough if you end up having to burn in hell for all eternity...

[BrilloPad]

I did wonder about the tesco thing - not the horse meat, but the pork. If your religion prohibits eating pork it could be really upsetting. What would be appropriate compensation for missing out on a place in paradise?

Do they get their virgins on earth - paid for by tesco?

[Archangel]

It was a class action lawsuit and is therefore (AIUI) to cover everyone who has ever been wrongly served non halal food there.
Lawyers will pocket most of it and boyo who brought the claim will get a voucher for some more chicken nuggets.

McDonald's and Finley's Management agreed to the tentative $700,000 (£442,000) settlement, with the money to be shared by Mr Ahmed, a Detroit health clinic, the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn and lawyers.


Read more: McDonald's Islamic diet lawsuit: Michigan restaurants pay out $700k to Muslims over false Halal food claim | Mail Online
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[vetran]

I did wonder about the tesco thing - not the horse meat, but the pork. If your religion prohibits eating pork it could be really upsetting. What would be appropriate compensation for missing out on a place in paradise?

Me too, key point is accidental:

Islam Question and Answer - How to cleanse oneself of pig-related impurity

Unless it was on purpose or it was not necessary for survival Allah is chilled about it.

What happens if a Jew eats pork

Jehovah doesn't mind either.

[Pondlife]

I did wonder about the tesco thing - not the horse meat, but the pork. If your religion prohibits eating pork it could be really upsetting. What would be appropriate compensation for missing out on a place in paradise?

Sausage & Bacon is the compensation.

[mudskipper]

I did wonder about the tesco thing - not the horse meat, but the pork. If your religion prohibits eating pork it could be really upsetting. What would be appropriate compensation for missing out on a place in paradise?

[BA to the Stars]

Should have gone to Burqua King

[Pondlife]

read it carefully, there was an inside man.

Yes, I saw the bit about "someone familiar with the inventory". How else would he have known?

The Detroit area is home to about 150,000 Muslims of many different ethnicities and the two McDonald's branches advertise that they exclusively sell halal Chicken McNuggets and McChicken sandwiches.

The McDs are deliberately marketing based on exclusivity to a certain type of customer and then selling them something different. How they got found out is irrelevant IMHO.

[vetran]

read it carefully, there was an inside man.

[Pondlife]

It was a class action lawsuit and is therefore (AIUI) to cover everyone who has ever been wrongly served non halal food there.
Lawyers will pocket most of it and boyo who brought the claim will get a voucher for some more chicken nuggets.

[vetran]

McDonald's Islamic diet lawsuit: Michigan restaurants pay out $700k to Muslims over false Halal food claim | Mail Online

not bad, I might even think about eating a McDonalds for that sort of payday.

So what do you think is $700k fair?