Any comments? Looks like a few of us will be coming earlier...
At least, would be good if we could stay in the same hotel (dorm), whether we
need to pay for stay and food those two days or not.
Greetings,
Safir
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Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> In Mexico City there are about 30,000 Jews. Out of them, I doubt more
> than 1,000 eat strictly kosher food - I lived among them for many
> years.
>
> > However, I didn't ask the team to go to that expense. I merely asked
> > someone on the debconf team to speak to the chef
Ted Walther wrote:
> Please talk to the hotel kitchen. What I am asking is very reasonable,
> and any European or North American kitchen would have no problem at all
> providing the type of meat I require. If the kitchen at the hotel isn't
> capable of this, I have to question why you booked a se
Hi!
* Thomas Bliesener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060410 23:23]:
> > I would not suggest bringing large amounts of cheese, as it can become
> > sandwiches for the customs people :)
> Large amounts of goods (e.g. t-shirts or CDs) are always considered
> suspicious. (Ask RMS who lost most part of his GNU
Gunnar Wolf schrieb am 2006-04-10:
> I would not suggest bringing large amounts of cheese, as it can become
> sandwiches for the customs people :)
Large amounts of goods (e.g. t-shirts or CDs) are always considered
suspicious. (Ask RMS who lost most part of his GNU t-shirts in the
customs.) I don
Thomas Bliesener dijo [Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:09:39PM -0500]:
> > Including cheese?
>
> http://www.aduanas.sat.gob.mx/aduana_mexico/A_Pasajeros_Arribar_al_Pais_English.htm
>
> They don't mention milk or dairy products there. This restrictions was
> imposed because of the foot and mouth disease i
Christian Perrier dijo [Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 11:11:39PM +0200]:
> > Be careful. The importation of food is quite restricted. Meat, milk,
> > dairy products and fresh fruit are not allowed. Perhaps the importation
>
> Including cheese?
>
> Yikes
Yes. Of course, you can bring some, airtight-se
Ted Walther dijo [Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:25:48AM -0700]:
> >An orthodox kosher diet or a vegan diet are capable of satisfying these
> >requirements. [I have no idea if there is a sufficient orthodox jewish
> >population in the area in which Debconf will be held to have meat that
> >has been butche
Safir Secerovic dijo [Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 06:20:38PM +0200]:
> I hope, we will not when it the pork is on the menu, so some of us can avoid
> it for religious reasons. If you could do that Gunnar please, I know that you
> have you hands full but please...
Don't worry, Safir, we have the regula
Ted Walther wrote:
> I appreciate you are busy, and I'm not the easiest customer to get
> along with
Your use of the word "customer" here is plainly out of place. You are
not a customer and you are not entitled to demmand anything.
--
.''`. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I th
* Ted Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-10 11:33]:
> >I am sorry, this cannot be done. I have talked to them, and they are
> >able to provide you with vegetarian (including milk/cheese/egg) or
> >vegan food. Yes, this is a government-owned hotel in a small town in a
> >third world country
>
>
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 02:53:31PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:33:47PM -0700, Ted Walther wrote:
Please talk to the hotel kitchen.
been there, done that.
Andreas, how were you able to talk to the hotel kitchen?
Gunnar said that he couldn't talk to the kitchen h
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 09:46:22AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Ted Walther dijo [Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:33:47PM -0700]:
Eating clean meat is important for the health of the conference
attendees. I think you would be better able to make decisions about
the food if you would talk to the hotels kit
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:15:07AM -0700, Ted Walther wrote:
>
> Safir, halal rules also require the meat be bled as soon as it is
> slaughtered. Someone which the chef at the hotel should be able to
> arrange without problems, especially given the volume the entire group
> will be eating.
Wrong
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 09:05:32PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
On Sat, 08 Apr 2006, Ted Walther wrote:
As I made clear before when Amaya asked me about kosher food on IRC,
my food requirements are not the same as the Orthodox Jewish kosher;
I follow the Karaite Jewish version of kashrut, which a
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 09:21:05AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
I have never eaten cockroaches, but you will find grilled grasshopers
in the market.
That sounds nice. At least one food I can eat. Without knowing more
about how the meat is slaughtered, I may have to live on those while
there. Ma
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 06:20:38PM +0200, Safir Secerovic wrote:
I hope, we will not when it the pork is on the menu, so some of us can
avoid it for religious reasons. If you could do that Gunnar please, I
know that you have you hands full but please...
Safir, halal rules also require the meat
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