by Nosferatu 5 Replies latest jw friends
Did any of you go by the rule to look for meat without any "by products" when you were shopping in order to avoid eating blood? Personally, I didn't care.
Also, as a child, I remember going to Pizza Hut with a couple of JWs, and they'd ask the waiter if their pepperoni had any "by products" in it. How many of you think the waiters told the truth when they said "no"?
I seriously doubt the employees at Pizza Hut had any idea. I never worried about that sort of thing when I was a dub. I remember asking my mom if the reddish liquid you see when opening a package of beef was blood. She said "no... that's just meat juice."
Yes, blood was a huge bogey-man in our house. We would check any meat that we purchased. In restaurants, we only ordered meat that didn't have blood - like ham, or hamburger. I never ate a pepperoni pizza, sausage, or hot dog in a restaurant until I was nearly 30.
Wow RunningMan... I hope you didn't eat red skittles!
Its not just human food, I've met many loyal dubs who will not feed their dogs or cats food with by products in them.
A freaking cat which eats mice and other varmints....sheesh. I was with a group as a teen when a good little dubbie asked the pimplefaced teen behind the counter if the Pizza had blood in it......he must have thought we were nuts..and rightly so.
I recall an experience a CO gave in a talk. He told of a boy and girl attending a school picnic. They were brother and sister. Anyway, they were serving hotdogs at this school picnic, and after the girl ate the hotdog, her "bible trained concience" started to bother her, since she might have eaten blood!
Anyway, when the boy & girl came home, the girl told her mother that she was worried about eating the hotdog and not knowing if there was blood in it. The mother started wondering why the boy wasn't worried about this. So she went and asked him if he was concerned about this. The boy responded, "No, when the teacher wasn't looking, I took one of the wieners, broke it in two, and squeezed them, and no blood came out!"
