25 March 2010

Another Muslim non-story

A man was unable to buy a burger from KFC, given that KFC had stopped selling that burger. This shouldn’t be a news story; businesses remove products from circulation all the time, because of a drop in demand, increasing costs of raw materials and so on.

If a local newsagents stopped selling cola bottles, it wouldn’t hit the headlines. So what was different about this story to attract the attention of the Daily Mail? A diner was left furious after a KFC restaurant refused to sell him a bacon burger – because it wasn’t halal. Ahh… Muslims are involved. [Pickled Politics] Read more