It has been an ancient custom to pray for the animal that's been sacrificed for your meal. This is not at all peculiar to Moslems. Christian Arabs would traditionally use terminology very similar to that.
So, prayer makes you lose your appetite, or Arabic, or the self-identity of the guy making the prayer?
prayer makes you lose your appetite, or Arabic, or the self-identity of the guy making the prayer? Well, there's always the fear in the back of your mind, that the islamoturkey may just explode killing everyone at the table.