Many friends have tried convincing me to
eat pork but to no avail. Unfortunately every time I am about to heed to their
pleas and give the damn thing a taste, I get terribly scared and I back off. I
just fear what will happen the day I get a taste of that delicacy. Off course
my concerned brothers and sisters in Christ have attributed my fears to my Islam
background and rebuked me for not getting “saved completely”.
Well, what many of these brothers and
sisters are yet to appreciate is that the problem is bigger than the pork. For
instance, I have a problem with smoked fish but interestingly I enjoy the fresh
fish. But even then the only type of fish I can eat is Tylapia. I have never
tasted any other type of fish.
My relatives and I have always quarrelled
over the apparent inconsistence in my food tastes. As in who eats fresh fish
but purports to have issues with smoked fish or so they wonder. And despite
their crude jokes about my issues with food, I have still maintained my stand
and I will not change that stand just because some brother or cousin of mine
thinks it is ridiculous. It‘s that bad.
Yet
you need to hear this. I have no problem eating
porridge and neither do I have any problem with taking milk yet once you mix the
porridge and milk, I cannot eat the stuff. I hate ghee a by product of milk and
I don’t take Yoghurt. Isn’t that more ridiculous? Obviously, to some people it
is but I will never apologise about it. I can give more examples to illustrate
the point but the bottom line is if I have never eaten it or tasted it before;
probably I will never eat or taste it.
We
have to agree that sometimes the food is simply too
green or people are just overly creative with the food.
And perhaps what all my friends and
relatives need to know is that when it comes to food, I am a Pharisee. I follow
the letter not the spirit. That’s why I can eat maize bread, rice and beans for
a year and I will not have any problem with that. My choices of what to eat are
limited to what I already know and what I like. If I do not like the taste of
it, then I will tell you I cannot eat it and indeed I will never eat it. But
that’s if you are lucky enough to successfully convince me to taste it.
Therefore
except if pork is so special; I think this should
be sufficient explanation to my Christian brothers and sisters for us to burry
this question of pork once and for all. Perhaps, what my Christian sisters can
do (obviously the brothers can’t do this) is to speak to me nicely and tell me
about the benefits of eating pork. I swear if a girl ever convinces me on this
one, I will marry her.
Anyway, there is a girl that has already convinced me that eating pork
just like marrying her would not be such a bad idea but I am just waiting for
the day she prepares the delicacy herself.
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