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2010-03-24 Arabia

Alcohol in Dubai restaurant dishes back on the menu

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Posted by Fred 2010-03-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 I suppose the fact that it all boils off during cooking escapes them.

Posted by gromky 2010-03-24 03:38|| 2010-03-24 03:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Does this mean I can get an olive in a gin and vermouth marinade like I have for dinner now?

Posted by BrerRabbit 2010-03-24 06:24|| 2010-03-24 06:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Do they label foods made with vanilla extract?

Posted by mom 2010-03-24 09:59|| 2010-03-24 09:59|| Front Page Top

#4 In Israel, Sunday brunches offered by major hotels are a huge money maker, and competition is fierce. Buffet lines are organized to segregate meats, dairy, and vegetarian foods.

In one such hotel, halfway through brunch, a customer saw steam drifting from underneath a meat tray in the direction of the dairy line. They calmly started screaming bloody murder, which concluded the buffet for the day.

The hotel's restaurant manager had to bring in, at great cost, a team of Rabbis to determine if Kosher law had been violated. After days of debate and argument, they decided that water should be obtained from the steam of the meat line, and that if a dog would drink it, it would mean that it had been contaminated with meat.

All eyes were on the manager as he put the bowl of water on the floor. The dog sniffed at it gingerly, then decided it wasn't thirsty. This satisfied the Rabbis, so they decreed that the hotel buffet was Kosher, not Tref.

Only later did the restaurant manager admit to a friend that for insurance he had put a few drops of Lysol in the water bowl with the water.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-24 10:03|| 2010-03-24 10:03|| Front Page Top

#5 I suppose the fact that it all boils off during cooking escapes them.

Almost all boils off, gromky, according to the Cook's Illustrated people, who ran the experiment. It's one of those asymptotic thingies.

Posted by trailing wife on the other computer 2010-03-24 12:48|| 2010-03-24 12:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Do they label foods made with vanilla extract?

I remember reading during the first Gulf War that people couldn't send, e.g., chocolate chip cookies to the soldiers based in Saudi Arabia, because of the vanilla extract.

Of course, that's one teaspoon of vanilla extract (35% alcohol, for the stuff in my cabinet) amid 2.25 cups of flour, 1.5 cups of sugar, two eggs, plus trace other elements. Oh, and the chocolate chips.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2010-03-24 21:31|| 2010-03-24 21:31|| Front Page Top

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