By: Rebecca
We get tv via an Egyptian satellite feed. We have 600 channels and 590 of them are in Arabic. The English language channels include a couple of Fox stations, the BBC, CNN, Aljazeera, and a bunch of movie channels.
One evening we were watching Master Chef and they kept bleeping out words. Finally we realized that the bleeps were where "pork" should have been. They also bleep out "wine" we think, there was only one time that we noticed that and we haven't figured out if all references to alcohol are taken out as well. Not in the US anymore.
Most places in Israel you cannot buy pork. In our neighborhood, the Russian grocery stores carry what is slyly referred to as "white steak" so it is available, but not common. Pigs cannot touch the ground in Israel, so farmers raise pigs on wooden platforms (another example of kombina!).
Since no one eats pork, there are not even pork substitutes like turkey bacon. I am going to miss a good turkey bacon BLT now that there are beautiful fresh tomatoes at the market! Those will be on the list of things to eat when we are back in August.
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