Ha Ha Ha -- Made Jews and Muslims eat pork yesterday!!!

[HamdenRice]

My partner, that is. Just kidding, sort of.

She brought a roast pork shoulder to a holiday party yesterday at her job. This Puerto Rican delicacy is called pernil, or in Newyorrican, pe'ni'. She grew up in a restaurant, so she is an excellent, fabulous cook. I consider myself a good cook and a good judge of cooking, and I'm pretty sure that I am not being biased when I say she makes a better pernil than anyone -- whether in a high class restaurant or Hispanic home. It is just heaven.

So anyway, she takes the pernil to the hospital where she works. Many of her coworkers are hispanic, but it's such a diverse crew, some of the young doctors are Pakistani muslims, and one is Jewish and one of her supervisors is Jewish.

The aroma of the pernil was so overpoweringly delicious, that the Jewish and Muslim people tried the pork. One Jewish doctor said she had only had pork once before -- she tasted bacon. But she had two helpings of the magical pernil! The Pakistani intern also had several helpings. The way she describes it, it was like a scene from the magical cooking Penelope Cruz movie, Woman On Top, in which people were literally helpless before Cruz's dishes.

I guess she should feel guilty, but as my Jewish friend Myles once said while surprising me by eating shellfish, "It's true I can't eat shellfish, but who said anything about tasting?"

[ET Awful]

1. Your partner is an evil corrupter of souls . . . .

or just a good cook, same difference :evilgrin: :)

[LeighAnn]

2. Flesh of the Swine

Just say no

[NoPasaran]

3. As Woody Allen wrote

Some scholars believe the Torah only meant to suggest not eating the pork in certain restaurants.

[HamdenRice]

6. I love that one!!! nt

[dolo amber]

4. Ok, that's pretty damn funny

:D

(ps - it occurs to me they might've *asked* just what sort of flesh they were about to partake of...:shrug:)

[HamdenRice]

5. Informed consent

Just to let you know she told everyone what they were eating -- pork shoulder. After all, this is a hospital and everyone is familiar with the concept of informed consent!

They just couldn't help themselves.