Welcome to the Tuesday Coffee Hour here on Street Prophets. This is an open thread where we can hang out and talk about what’s going on in our worlds. Periodically, there are news stories about and lists of banned books. In addition, there are both formal and informal lists of banned words—words which are not allowed to be spoken on television, for example. Now turning to something even more important, let’s talk about banned foods.
There are lots of kinds of banned foods. There are some religious traditions which prohibit certain foods (okay folks, this is your cue to go ahead with the “shell fish” debate that has been waged in other diaries). One of these banned foods is pork:
It is illegal to import pork products into Yemen, with a maximum punishment of death.
People in Sweden eat about one kilogram of ham person each Christmas.
I suspect that the last factoid tells something about religion in Sweden.
Tea has been in the news a lot lately and I suspect that some people would like to ban it. Any interest “tea” factoid:
When tea was first introduced in the American colonies, many housewives, in their ignorance, served the tea leaves with sugar or syrup after throwing away the water in which they had been boiled.
Then there are those foods that many people would like to ban simply because they don’t like them. So what foods would you like to ban?
Let me start by banning baked beans. It’s not that I dislike baked beans (I mean I REALLY dislike them), but it seems like I’m always have people push them on me, trying to convince that they’re really good. The conviction with which some people are convinced that their baked beans are somehow different and the best in the world reminds me of the fervor of some Christian evangelicals who feel that their religion is somehow the best and different from all others.
If you’re not into food banning, then tell us what you are having for dinner? What’s happening in your life? Eaten any banned food lately?