Pork fight at Dunkin' Donuts

msnbc ^ | 8/3/07 | Natalie Martinez

[XR7]

Franchise owner Wahlid Ekhatib says his Muslim faith forbids him from handling or selling pork in his suburban Chicago Dunkin' Donuts store...

LINK to video: http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=9f64dace-551c-4745-a6fa-3d3027b7f87a&t=m137&f=06/64&p=hotvideo_viralvideos&fg=&GT1=10252

[XR7]

So if this guy doesn't want to be near pork, why'd he buy a D.D. franchise in the first place?

[MarineBrat]

I’d like a dozen bacon and a dozen “Pork be upon me” donuts please.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Due to the majority ownership at Caribou Coffee......You cannot get a ham sammich.

[edcoil]

Will congress view this like doctors/pharmacy's not sell abortion pills due to their faith and force him to sell pork?

[metmom]

So why is he living here in the first place?

If you don’t want pork around, go back to whatever porkfree hellhole you came from.

[metmom]

Great point.

[Disturbin]

“If you don’t want pork around, go back to whatever porkfree hellhole you came from.”

Unlucky for him, since the popularity of pork usually goes hand-in-hand with things like electricity, civility, freedom, etc.

[Post-Neolithic]

Obama is about as useless as t*ts on a boar hog, and about as dumb. This guy has zero credibilty for the job he now holds, let alone President.

His no-nuke statement was about as assinine as they come.

[Post-Neolithic]

Ack, wrong thread :) Sorry...

[reagan_fanatic]

Pork donuts?

[Spruce]

So let me get this right — you can get ham, bacon, pork chops, AND donuts at the same place? Sweet!

[CondorFlight]

I think Orthodox Jews might have this same problem; but you didn’t see them demanding that nobody else eat pork or
change the way they live.

THEY found ways to manage, without infringing on the freedoms of anyone else.

[rattrap]

Sounds like you need a Bacon Sandwich.

[himno hero]

ewwwwe...you over looked the charmin

[expatpat]

Sell the franchise, you dummie, if you don’t like what the franchise sells.

[mickey finn]

I think a maple/bacon donut sounds great!

[himno hero]

the original?
doughnuts deep fried in pork fat?

[SampleMan]

Will congress view this like doctors/pharmacy's not sell abortion pills due to their faith and force him to sell pork?

Forget congress, Dunkin Donuts will weigh in. You can't own a McDonalds and refuse to serve Big Macs.

[BigFinn]

Wahlid needs to sell his franchise and switch to falafels. There it’s fixed. Easy.

[SampleMan]

I hate it when that happens.

[Puppage]

Wahlid Ekhatib says his Muslim faith

America runs on Dunkin Donuts.

[Post-Neolithic]

"Sounds like you need a Bacon Sandwich."

Now ya went and did it. I just got through cleaning up the drool caused by the thought of a pork chop(and sauerkraut) sandwich.

[Clam Digger]

Big deal, it’s his store, he can do what he wants, as long as he’s not violating his franchise agreement. Me, I’d vte with my feet and never go near the place. There’s a DD on pretty much every street corner. My town has 5 of the things.

[massgopguy]

When will cabbies start refusing to take old ladies home in their cabs from the super market because there’s pork products in their bags?

[Born to Conserve]

It pisses me off when I get a sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich from a cart in Manhattan, and find they’ve given me some kind of turkey crap sausage. Same with bacon — they substitute crap for the pork.

I wonder if there is a market for “pork packets” that can be carried in the pocket until needed to anoint a muzzie cart in retribution for pawning off turkey cum products at real pork.

[Maceman]

Dunkin' Donuts also sells breakfast sandwiches, including the Supreme Omelet, which comes with ham, bacon or sausage:

[billbears]

America runs on Dunkin Donuts

Sounds about right. Those bricks they call doughnuts would do well as car tires.....

As for this guy, if he doesn't like what the franchise offers sell it. No one is forcing him to keep it.

[gdani]

Forget congress, Dunkin Donuts will weigh in

If I remember correctly from earlier news coverage, Dunkin Donuts has allowed other franchisees to not serve pork - and not for religious reasons, either.

[SampleMan]

I think Orthodox Jews might have this same problem; but you didn’t see them demanding that nobody else eat pork or change the way they live.

Exactly. You don't see Christians buying Head Chopping franchises and then refusing to cut off heads. How would the muzzies feel if I went to their little corner of the world, bought a Goat franchise, but then decided that I wasn't going to allow them to sex up my goats?

[Kozak]

Due to the majority ownership at Caribou Coffee..

I don't buy at that Wahabist Saudi business.

[Tex Pete]

I figured this thread had something to do with police.

[SampleMan]

If I remember correctly from earlier news coverage, Dunkin Donuts has allowed other franchisees to not serve pork - and not for religious reasons, either.

Then it would be a non-issue.

[doodad]

Some place in Seattle sells those. It was on No Reservations one night.

[XR7]

the original? doughnuts deep fried in pork fat?

A little lard in the cooking oil gives 'em that golden glow.

[doodad]

But that is the problem. He is violating his franchise agreement. I remember in another thread that DD added these items to their menu years ago, but suddenly it is a problem for this guy who has held the franchise for a long time, IIRC.

[doodad]

Well there is the rub. DD is declining to renew his franchise as he is up for reenlistment.

[Clam Digger]

Then DD should strip his franchise license.

I’d still vote with my feet, and never go in there with this kind of BS in place.

[Kirkwood]

“Big deal, it’s his store, he can do what he wants, as long as he’s not violating his franchise agreement.”

That’s the point. DD says he’s in violation of the agreement. He can open up his own donut shop if he wants to modify the menu.

[doodad]

And he needs a rib shack to open next door to him. It can vent the smoker straight at his door.

[longtermmemmory]

Tort reform example.

This is just nusance suit set up.

[XR7]

When will cabbies start refusing to take old ladies home in their cabs from the super market because there’s pork products in their bags?

Truth is stranger than fiction.....

Muslim taxi drivers draw ire for refusing customers with booze
May 26, 2007

Some Muslim taxi drivers in Minnesota have drawn the ire of airport authorities for refusing to pick up customers carrying alcohol.

The cabbies, many of them Somali, have shut their doors to more than 5,200 customers who landed at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport since 2002.

They've also refused a number of customers in the city who want to bring a bottle of wine or liquor home with their groceries....

LINK: http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Muslim_taxi_drivers_draw_ire_for_re_05262007.html

[Nathan Zachary]

It did mention Hog, so it still fits, sort of.

[XR7]

#39
LOL!

[Alter Kaker]

Unlucky for him, since the popularity of pork usually goes hand-in-hand with things like electricity, civility, freedom, etc.

SI am, of course, only typing with the aid of my trusty hand powered generator (electricity being largely unknown in these pork-free Israeli latitudes).

[monkapotamus]

[Clam Digger]

I like how you think!

[meandog]

I concur...it’s his business he can sell what he wants; but DD should also have right to franchise to whom they want as well, accordingly should have checked him out in the beginning. They obviously didn’t, their tough luck. As for the customers, it they want a ham biscuit, go to McD’s...

[chrisser]

If you don’t want pork around, go back to whatever porkfree hellhole you came from

IMHO, any place that is porkfree is a hellhole.

Gotta have my bacon.

[Sundog]

I can see you'd appreciate this little Gem:

I wanna be like Osama

(From the new British Comedy: Jihad, The Musical)

[rattrap]

You know, August is National Sandwich Month.