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at this moment i am in the middle of buying a plane ticket for a good friend who is travelling from denver to help with a show next month, and i come the meal preference part of the ticket form, and i pull down the menu, and lo and behold, in this day and age of $7 sandwiches and $2 water on airplanes, i get to choose from an array of cuisines! diabetic, vegetarian, vegan, low-sodium, kosher, and muslim. hmmmm… shouldn’t that be halal? which reminds me that today, while sitting at the counter of our classiest local coffee shop, the metro, and being served by a deliciously ambisexual barrista, i picked up part of a stack of some kind of trivial pursuit cards for foodies, and about the fourth one down referred to the halal and kosher (same part of the world, same cuisine) requirement that animals be slaughtered by having their throats cut while conscious… that kind of made an impression. but anyways, i digress; there was the pull down menu, and it was all i could do to resist the temptation to sign my polish friend up for a muslim meal. at that point, all he has to do is pull out a cell phone, and it’s all over. but after some deliberation, i chose no preference, as that would be his choice i think. myself, i’ve chosen hindu when i’m offered, in the faint hope that someday i’ll be served a passable curry while riding in a 757.