Posted on 10/19/2005 4:43:44 PM PDT by chet_in_ny
PATERSON, N.J. Inmates at the Passaic County Jail are no longer getting kosher and halal meals.
A jail spokesman says they're too expensive.
Bill Maer tells The Record of Bergen County the jail will make its own halal and kosher meals by adding a lawyer of plastic wrap under the food and over the food.
Federal immigration detainees are among the inmate population and Maer says Muslims are the biggest group of federal detainees to request the special meals.
The change comes during Ramadan, Muslim's holy month, and while the jail is being audited by the Homeland Security Department following complaints of abuse and poor conditions.
The jail started serving religious meals four months ago.
Passaic County ping!
LOL! Does a lawyer make the meals unclean?
Is the lawyer kosher or halal?
I guess bread and water is both kosher or halal...
Typso ping!
A good use for lawyers!
Geeze...the ACLU will sue just on the typo alone.Then they'll get into the breathtaking injustice of denying followers of The Religion Of Peace their special,$50/day diet.
Many lawyers could make anything unclean!
But if they're covered with plastic wrap ...
Gives a bad name to plastic wrap...
It most cover their mouths and noses..
Oh, good idea!
"kosher meals by adding a lawyer of plastic wrap"
Not kosher, lol.
Virginia deputy describes New Jersey officers' bad behavior 11:23 AM EDT on Sunday, October 16, 2005 Associated Press WAYNESBORO, Va. (AP) -- It wasn't the first time Augusta County Sheriff's Deputy Michael Roane had been the recipient of the F-word during a traffic stop. But it was the first time he heard it from a fellow cop. On Sept. 18, as motorists called 911 to complain about a reckless New Jersey police convoy on Interstate 81, Roane pulled over some of the out-of-state officers to ask them to slow down. "What the f--- did you stop us for?" a sheriff's deputy from Passaic County, N.J., yelled at Roane. Other Passaic deputies who were part of the convoy surrounded Roane and also harped at him, the Augusta deputy told The News Virginian. Roane said he politely asked the officers, whom he estimated to be traveling 95 mph, to slow down and cut off their lights. Virginia law bars emergency vehicles from running with lights when there is no emergency. The New Jersey convoy was among many returning home from hurricane-relief missions in New Orleans.http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_top_101605_jersey_cops.ed42fa81.html
So many ways this can be taken. A lawyer who represents plastic wrap in court? An attorney practiced in the law of plastic wrap? Does that mean there are also lawyers of waxed paper? Aluminum foil? Would using a waxed paper lawyer prevent the food from being kosher or halal?
Ok, I'm done. I'll go quietly.
It depends whether the wax in the wax paper includes all natural beeswax, or artificial wax including animal products. (I learned this on FR :-).
OK,
I'm trying to wrap my mind around this (the lawyer joke is good). It's the prep that makes the mean Kosher, more than the service. (whatever)
We once had a client who insisted he was on a Kosher diet. So we went and bought all these frozen meals for him (no way could we make Kosher in our South Georgia Bacon-Grease-is-Season-All kitchen).
Anyhow, first night he was there, we had pizza. He immediately started saying "I'm Italian, not Jewish!"
Oy vey, the joys of working with the insane :)
You're not supposed to eat the lawyer.
ACLU Wrap
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