No Pork or Alcohol? Yeah, right...

So I found this in the news: KFC diner told 'you can't have bacon in your burger here - we're now halal'

I'll preface this post by saying that I try at all costs to avoid eating fast food. To me almost everything that is served out of a window is the culinary equivalent of those little temporary "donut" spare tires that come with Toyotas and Nissans. They will get you by, buy you only use them when you absolutely have no other choice.

That said, I am increasingly irked by the stuff like this. What the hell is KFC doing trying to be halal-compliant? The article readily admits that they don't kill their chicken according to halal rules. Either do it or don't. It is ridiculous to think that they can tell a customer to go 5 miles down the road to the next non-halal compliant KFC.

This is the latest in a series of what I view to be dumb moves in the fast food industry. In case you missed it, Culatello covered the McDonald's debacle over the McItaly promotion.

David