The bacon sandwich saga

[pr126]

Contractor loses out on his 'dream' £1,000-a-week IT role after unwittingly saying he would treat his Muslim recruiter to a bacon sandwich

Mr Hunt, from Heywood, Greater Manchester, said he wasn't aware he had offended Sharika Sacranie, 29, during a meeting at the firm's city centre office until he received a phone call from a senior manager.

Mr Hunt said: 'After we shook hands she said that she would come over to meet me on site with the other contractors and take us for breakfast.

'My parting words to her were "I will buy the bacon sandwiches".

Oops, bacon sandwiches. How could you. You racist bigot, you.
Just offended 1.6 billion Muslims.

A hate crime! Lock 'em up!

[stromboli]

I understand their thinking. Because once you've had bacon, there's no going back.  [-X

[wolf39us]

How incredibly inappropriate to bring religion into business

[Colanth]

Some Muslims would be bringing business into religion, since life and religion are the same thing for them.

[stromboli]

We should develop a machine gun that shoots bacon bullets. Getting porkified would terrorize them off the battlefield. Friendly fire, on the other hand, would be brunch.

[NeoLogic26]

Assuming this guy was not trying to be offensive (and I tend to agree with that assessment), what kind of lesson are people hoping this guy will take away from this? Was he supposed to assume that a Middle Eastern-looking person was a Muslim and not mention bacon? Is that kind of profiling what these idiots want?

As an aside, in England, is a bacon sandwich a common breakfast item? If not, then it might lend credence to the argument that he was trying to insult someone who he thought might be a Muslim.

[Brian37]

I understand their thinking. Because once you've had bacon, there's no going back.  [-X

I hate Penn's economic positions, but in his book he describes a former Jew having their first bacon cheeseburger with him after a show. Life without bacon is the only real hell there is.

[josephpalazzo]

As an aside, in England, is a bacon sandwich a common breakfast item? If not, then it might lend credence to the argument that he was trying to insult someone who he thought might be a Muslim.

A healthy English breakfast has eggs, sausage, mushroom, cooked tomatoes, toast, coffe or tea, and yes, bacon.OTOH, bacon sandwich are rather greasy, but yummy.

[Brian37]

As an aside, in England, is a bacon sandwich a common breakfast item? If not, then it might lend credence to the argument that he was trying to insult someone who he thought might be a Muslim.

A healthy English breakfast has eggs, sausage, mushroom, cooked tomatoes, toast, coffe or tea, and yes, bacon.OTOH, bacon sandwich are rather greasy, but yummy.

You lost me at mushrooms.

[Satt]

We should develop a machine gun that shoots bacon bullets. Getting porkified would terrorize them off the battlefield. Friendly fire, on the other hand, would be brunch.

[Jason78]

As an aside, in England, is a bacon sandwich a common breakfast item? If not, then it might lend credence to the argument that he was trying to insult someone who he thought might be a Muslim.

A healthy English breakfast has eggs, sausage, mushroom, cooked tomatoes, toast, coffe or tea, and yes, bacon.OTOH, bacon sandwich are rather greasy, but yummy.

How could you leave out black pudding?

How could you?

[_Xenu_]

We should develop a machine gun that shoots bacon bullets. Getting porkified would terrorize them off the battlefield. Friendly fire, on the other hand, would be brunch.

This has actually been done before, they just soak the bullets in bacon grease.

[WitchSabrina]

[PickelledEggs]

I don't really blame muslims for not allowing people to eat bacon. They have a few thousand years on us in terms of culture age. I think they are just worried about cholesterol.

....... Although bacon is so good and tasty that I do sort of not like how they deprive people of the "slices of bliss" that is bacon.

[aitm]

I don't really blame muslims for not allowing people to eat bacon. They have a few thousand years on us in terms of culture age.  

 :-k