Bacon, anyone? Airline serves pork on flight from Israel

[joeybee12]

EasyJet has apologized to Jewish passengers after serving only pork products on a recent flight from Tel Aviv to London, the Daily Mail reports.

Some travelers went without food for the 4 1/2-hour flight, refusing the ham melts and bacon baguettes offered after wrong meals were loaded onto the plane.

In the Jewish faith, consumption of pork is forbidden.

Passenger Victor Kaufman, 25, told the Sun newspaper that the airline had been "a little insensitive."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41762592/ns/travel-news/

[FreakinDJ]

1. "Your Fired"

[11 Bravo]

45. My fired what? Hell, I don't even have a fire.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

2. 4 1/2 hours?!?

Oh the humanity!

[joeybee12]

7. For me, that would be hell...4-1/2 hours without food! nt

[blueamy66]

20. I'm with ya...

please, whine about something important, please....

Those passengers were lucky that they were fed anything in this day and age...

[hatrack]

41. Won't someone think of Teh Children?

:eyes:

[marmar]

3. EasyJet sucks......

I flew them once from Barcelona to Paris......NEVER again !!!!

[Goblinmonger]

5. I flew from Paris to Barcelona two summers ago.

Not the greatest airline, but pretty damn cheap. At least they didn't lose our luggage like Italian airline did.

[WolverineDG]

16. I've flown them several times while in Europe

you can have a flight from hell on any airline. Mine, for instance, came on the much-lauded Air France.

dg

[marmar]

17. Wasn't the flight.....it was their policies and procedures.

Including their ridiculous bag weight limits.

[WolverineDG]

22. Try Ryan Air--they are a LOT worse

as for EasyJet, their bag weight limits are about in line with the US airlines, and they let you carry on as much as you want, as long as you can lift it.

dg

[marmar]

23. I've never flown Ryanair, and hear lots of stories.....

Of all the Euro budget airlines I've flown on, I liked Maersk the best, and I don't think they exist anymore, at least not under that name.

[fittosurvive]

4. No reformed Jews on that flight...

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[jmowreader]

21. Simple logic should have told those guys this wasn't a good idea

A Jewish People Not Eating Ham thread calls for this picture...



but seriously, Lance...don't ya think if you were flying out of a place where Judaism was the majority religion, you would have put something besides bacon and ham dishes on the plane?

[Lance_Boyle]

37. TFA says it was loaded by mistake. Mistakes happen.

A 4-hour flight without the food of your choice is not the end of the world. And keeping kosher is *very much* a choice.

Overenthusiastic mods: you should re-think deleting posts that do not violate any DU rule. After all, perhaps an imaginary sky fairy will smite you for your misplaced zeal!

[SoCalDem]

8. Is everyone who flies El Al, Jewish?

Don;t they reserve meals anymore?

Maybe that plane got the wrong food:)

That said, the return flight from Tahiti to LA, was a NIGHTMARE.. It Originated in Korea, and ALL the food was fish-based...NASTY smelling plane and stomach turning to even think of eating a fishy anything on a plane:(

[WolverineDG]

18. Not on EasyJet

they sell food, they don't offer free meals.

dg

[El Supremo]

9. Henry Kissinger liked to tell the joke...

about he ordered ham and eggs on an El Al flight.

[Shagbark Hickory]

11. Kinda makes ya wonder about the plane maintenance. Since they pay so muych

attn to detail.

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[DemoTex]

13. Wait! Airline food is catered at the departure airport.

If EasyJet could get bacon catered in Tel Aviv, I'm OK with this.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. My wife is Jewish, and she loves bacon.

I'm an atheist, and won't touch pork at all. :shrug:

[high density]

15. If you don't like the food, don't eat it

I come across food I don't want to eat all the time.

[Stinky The Clown]

19. Was this one of the newer EasyJet aircraft with hanger straps like the NY Subway?

Were the outdoor wing seats filled?

The meals were probably left over from a previous flight so their cheapfuck CEO just said to keep them on board.

EasyJet sucks.

[Codeine]

25. Outdoor wing seats.

Dude, don't give those fuckers any ideas!

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[tammywammy]

31. Probably, this is DU after all.n/t

[JI7]

33. i'm pretty sure it would be

with people saying it was intentional also

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

40. Of course! After all, we're libruls and therefore anti-semitic terrorist-loving Muslimophiles!

:eyes:

[Blue-Jay]

26. The best thing I ever got was some Oreos and two small bottles of scotch.

[JI7]

27. maybe they should just make all airline food vegetarian

wouldn't it be easier for the airlines also ?

[Codeine]

28. Then you'd have to hear me whining about dairy and eggs.

:evilgrin:

[ZombieHorde]

29. Hilarious! I love it. nt

[Initech]

30. Funny, I have a Jewish friend who proudly wears an "I love bacon" shirt.

[social_critic]

34. He's probably a masochist

And his cholesterol level is sky high.

[Obamanaut]

32. There are children who go to bed hungry every night, and get up hungry

in the morning - and these whiners are concerned about a measly 4 1/2 hours.

Oh, poor things.

[Luminous Animal]

35. 4 1/2 hours in the air = 6 1/2 to 8 1/2 traveling. That is a long day with no food.

SFO asks that travelers arrive 1 - 1 1/2 hours before domestic flight departure. It takes 40-45 minutes to get to the airport. So even before the plane takes off, I've added at least 2 hours to my travel time. Then, after landing, there's luggage pick-up and the travel to your destination. Most every time I've flown, it has taken a minimum of 1 1/2 to collect my luggage and get to my destination.

[Obamanaut]

36. Have you ever slept 8 hours in the same night? Few, if any, die of starvation in that time.

Did you go to bed hungry? Did you have b'fast shortly after you got up? Please spare us the tales of food deprivation caused by air travel.


Even the 'lengthy' fast of 8 1/2 hours little more than a good night's sleep.

:nopity:

[Luminous Animal]

52. Your are right. All Jews should be offered pork and only pork on airlinans and when

they whine about it, they should be reminded that the slept for 8 hours without food so what's another 8 hours without food.

[ZombieHorde]

44. People have free will and can choose their beliefs, right?

If they were really hungry, they could have just ate the food. Nothing bad would have happened.

[SidDithers]

46. +1...

If taken to it's ridiculous extension, it's kind of the opposite of the old "no atheists in foxholes" myth.

Would the religious die of starvation if food prohibited by their religion was the only thing available?

Sid

[Luminous Animal]

53. Are you advocating that those devout Jews should have eaten the pork rather than abstain

and lodged a complaint?

[Luminous Animal]

50. Well, I am an atheist but I will not judge.

Some people live by a code in which stepping out of that code causes severe discomfort.

[ZombieHorde]

55. I should have disclosed I strongly suspect people don't choose their religious

beliefs. I don't think they could have used their free will and just decide their pork beliefs were no longer valid until the flight was over. I was trying to point that out with my reply.

I don't think I could choose to believe in their god anymore than they can choose to not believe in their god. Many people change their faiths over time, but I really doubt it's a choice. I suspect faith is something that happens to us; a byproduct of living together. I am not completely sure about this, but it is my current feeling towards the subject.

[rucky]

38. They still serve food on airplanes?

[hatrack]

42. Well, yes - metaphorically speaking . . .

If not "food" it's an amazing high-tech simulation.

[Jmaxfie1]

51. good answer! n/t

[Recovered Repug]

39. I bet the bacon wasn't even kosher. nt

[rucky]

43. In my home, all bacon is "kosher"

;)

[_ed_]

47. No airline should have to cater to

Bronze-Age mythology. Prohibiting eating pork is a silly, absurd myth. Should we also cater to the desires of all of the tens of thousands of "gods" that have existed in human history? Maybe the airline should force women to wear burqas so as to not offend the Muslims.

[Luminous Animal]

54. Hello fellow atheist! Welcome to DU! I don't agree with you, though...

The problem here was not accommodating individual choice. The problem here was that there was no choice at all.

[eppur_se_muova]

48. Bacon -- the gateway drug to pork abuse. nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

49. True, but very few people abuse their pork in public. nt

[itsrobert]

56. I was temporary duty in Saudi Arabia for 6 months

Believe it or not Pork products were served way to often in the chow hall. Just about everyday. For some reason they could get plenty of pork/ham. But no beef or chicken.