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Morrisons Begins Halal Pick & Mix
BigAndy99
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16th April 2015
Please discuss.
Morrisons is trialling a halal pick and mix counter at 10 stores, offering gelatine-free sweets to Muslim customers.
The selection of 36 sweets includes liquorice sticks, cola bottles, jelly beans, gummy bears and sugared lips - all guaranteed to be free of non-halal animal products or alcohol-based colourings and flavourings.
The move is being tested at stores in Blackburn, Bolton, Preston, Bradford, West Bromwich, Birmingham, Leamington Spa and three in London.
It was welcomed by Salim Mulla, chairman of the halal sub-committee at the Lancashire Council of Mosques.
"Sweets are very popular with the Muslim community," he said. "I think the pick and mix will do really well."
Abdul Hamid Qureshi, chairman of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, said he also welcomed the introduction of more halal foods in supermarkets.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/shopping-and-consumer-news/11537349/Morrisons-is-first-supermarket-to-stock-halal-pick-and-mix-sweets.html
Please discuss.
Morrisons is trialling a halal pick and mix counter at 10 stores, offering gelatine-free sweets to Muslim customers.
The selection of 36 sweets includes liquorice sticks, cola bottles, jelly beans, gummy bears and sugared lips - all guaranteed to be free of non-halal animal products or alcohol-based colourings and flavourings.
The move is being tested at stores in Blackburn, Bolton, Preston, Bradford, West Bromwich, Birmingham, Leamington Spa and three in London.
It was welcomed by Salim Mulla, chairman of the halal sub-committee at the Lancashire Council of Mosques.
"Sweets are very popular with the Muslim community," he said. "I think the pick and mix will do really well."
Abdul Hamid Qureshi, chairman of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, said he also welcomed the introduction of more halal foods in supermarkets.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/shopping-and-consumer-news/11537349/Morrisons-is-first-supermarket-to-stock-halal-pick-and-mix-sweets.html
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Good point.
So why this? I'm not sure but i wonder if these sweet stands are labelled gelatine-free or halal?
Are they for muslims or are they for everybody? If they are for everybody, this being England they wouldn't be named halal, you'd have thought?
But they're not gelatine free. They're just using gelatine from halal slaughtered animals.
To me it makes zero sense. Just make them them geletine free completely then everyone can eat them.
It's yet more for the anti Muslim brigade to complain about.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3040047/Morrisons-halal-pick-mix-sale-Britain.html
It says they are gelatine-free in the article Lyceum?
"Please discuss."
Are you a professor or something?
So much for tolerence and freedom of ideas.
It always amuses me how quickly certain sorts of people are to complain of bigotry in others.
In the article I posted it says halal geletine.
To me, it's no different to seeing "this may contain peanuts", which is heads up for those with nut intolerance. I can eat halal sweets and food. Same with kosher food/sweets.
The OP is posting various topics on Muslims, presumably trying to prove a 'point'.
Huh ?
Ok. I guess that needs clearing up then because it does change the story somewhat.
Slaughter merhods should be improved throughout and barbaric Halal slaughter should be banned and anyone doing so given a lengthy prison sentence
Those dumb enough to let fiction oppose restrictions on to them should have to do without.
After all they are the ones lacking the brain capacity to realise religion is a load of nonsense and they are following nonsensical rules.
I might have to set up a religion myself just to get my own set of ignorant followers. I will call it Baconia, free Bacon to all.
You'd have thought they would, that has been the way with other products for certain communities.
The Daily Mail one?
"Counters will sell 36 types of gelatine-free and alcohol-free sweets"
"A selection of 36 sweets - including liquorice sticks, cola bottles, jelly beans and gummy bears - are on sale, all guaranteed to be free of animal products or alcohol-based ingredients."
Hi Takae.
No, what makes you ask that?
I don't like sweets never have even as a kid but as I'm vegetarian and straight edge (which part of means no alcohol even in food) it would be good to have something if I wanted to or liked sweets
I don't think Topics are part of pick and mix sadly.
Hehe
Well, don't think you can just wander into Morrisons and help yourself to gelatine-free, alcohol free sweets!
According to the DM ...
"Morrisons supermarket is bringing in halal-only pick and mix counters"
Presumably, with them being "Halal-only" there's a bouncer at the counter who won't let you buy any if you can't recite part of the Quran!
Hmmm ... I wonder if the staff at the DM have ever been for a Chinese takeaway, or do they think they're "Chinese only"? ;-)
Also says
Halal sweets include only gelatin from halal slaughtered animals and do not contain any other animal-derived ingredients from non-halal animals.
Guess we won't know for sure until the ingredients are listed.