Non-Halal food at night, is there anywhere?
A lot has been said about what is wrong, what has changed for the worse, what race is to blame etc for drink related social problems, on another thread on this forum.So here is my view as a white working class person, on what has changed for the worse. I was brought up in West Ealing. My early drinking years (say 1978 onwards) Were, if I wanted Courage beers The Royal (already dying) and the Red Lion, both Boston Road, or the Foresters or the Grosvenor. For a penny extra, there was Fullers in the Plough, Northfields Ave.But more than that, if you left half hour before kicking out time there was the Chip shop, where you could buy savaloy & chips to soak up the beer on the way home. Not any more! The chip shops all seem to have to close by 21:30-22:00. Leaving us with only the fried chicken or kebab shops, all of which are Halal!! Well a lot of us out here refuse to eat halal, so you now have people who've been on the beer all evening, often drunk with no way of soaking up that beer until we get home, this will cause some behaviour problems in itself.So why have the non halal options been taken from us?That is in itself a reverse form of racism, it's eat halal or go without (McDonalds I refuse to see as real food, and the KFC sells halal without saying so).This sort of thing breed hatred and resentment of the muslim community. They can get a hot meal at night, but not anyone who doesn't eat halal food. Is there anywhere left that is non-halal for the after pub people who want something hot to eat? If not why not?
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