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EasyJet Offers Israeli Fliers Choice of Ham or Bacon

Budget carrier sorry for pork-only mix-up

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 23, 2011 1:43 AM CST | Updated Feb 23, 2011 5:44 AM CST

(Newser) – Just months after launching a Tel Aviv-London service with a kosher menu, EasyJet found itself with nothing to offer hungry Jewish passengers on a 4.5-hour flight but ham melts and bacon baguettes. The airline apologized for the blunder, saying the wrong food canisters had been supplied, the Daily Mail reports. "I think they need a lesson or two on cultural awareness if they expand their routes into the Middle East," said one passenger. "It is not just Jewish passengers who do not eat pork, but Muslim ones, too."

I couldn't eat anything, one passenger complained.
"I couldn't eat anything," one passenger complained.   (AP Photo/Corrado Giambalvo)
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dungbeetle
Feb 23, 2011 11:24 AM CST
Why do errors of this ilk constantly happen? Can't they have one person delegated to check these things before embarrassing themselves? It's like Asian instruction booklets. Just hire some Westerner who can actually speak idiomatic English to write the damn thing. Wouldn't cost that much. Just complainin' . . .
Odoggy
Feb 23, 2011 11:15 AM CST
Why does God hate Ham so much. Food is food.
carbonatedturtle
Feb 23, 2011 11:12 AM CST
It doesn't matter how many times I hear it, it never stops being funny. So, it's okay to kill people for worshiping a god different than yours, but eating pork is somehow a sin? Silly religitards.
 

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