i was writing content about tapas for work and then spiraled down the whole of antisemitism in Spain.....there is a reason almost every single popular tapas dish includes pork, cheese, seafood or a combination of them
literally even traditional potato recipes had pork fat
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It's the other way round - the Jewish dietary laws exist to self-isolate the Jews from other groups, to the point that Mosaic taboos are considered an important source on the customs of neighbouring peoples at the time of writing. And keep in mind that fundie Rabbis came up, and still come up, with further crazy restrictions loosely based on these laws, like turning the oddly specific "don't cook the kid in its own mother's milk" into a general ban on combining diary with meat or fridges with the option to turn off lighting during the Sabbath.
@Skyknight #69782
Pork also has a pretty scary amount of parasites in it. Without our modern meat standards, I wouldn’t eat it either.
The funny thing is that Herodotus records the Egyptians as not eating pigs, either.
That was probably true…but only in the 15th and 16th Centuries, when they used to send the Spanish Inquisition after the conversos, as well as others. You can hardly blame modern Spanish people for THAT, so I would just accept it with a polite gracias.
@Skyknight #69782
That’s my thought on the whole thing as well.
In fact, I think a lot of the restrictions and such on a lot of stuff in scriptures was originally for health and safety reasons and that such rules are automatically made moot or at least modified once new knowledge of things develop.
Wasn’t this caused by the fact pork was the easiest meat to get, since it feeds itself on everything it could get, including garbage? Indeed, some of the reasons why pork was banned in some religious groups was competition with the same resources than humans (cattle and goats was able to valorise plants unsuitable to humans but pigs would eat everything) and association with uncleanliness born out from its ability to eat even garbage.
Indeed, there was some religious rules which might originally be created on the basis of taboos born on experience: for exemple, a fruit was banned because one related vegetal was poisonous.
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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