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[...] – I originally viewed this video on the Inkwatu blog in an essay by Hilton Kean Jones about New York Street Food, 6 September 2008. Accessed October 2011. [↩ go [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:11:23 +0000

Ahhhh, the knish. Cherrywood Elementary in Wantagh, NY, used to serve knish in the cafeteria. They also had real mustard, not that dayglo orange stuff you see now. I love the knish.

By: Say Lee

Say Lee — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:39:18 +0000

Thanks for the clarification.

As far as I can make out from the results of googling, a maiden ewe is one that is at the breeding age but has not bred.

By: hkj

hkj — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:45:00 +0000

Hi, Say…thanks for dropping by. I was pretty sure that the meat they were serving at the halal carts was the exact same mix of lamb and beef that Greek gyro restaurants in the US use, but the vendors all referred to it as simply lamb. So…that’s what I called it. Because I honestly didn’t know they were different, your post prompted me to check what the difference is between lamb (“a young sheep under 12 months of age which does not have any permanent incisor teeth in wear”) and mutton (“a female…or castrated male…sheep having more than two permanent incisors in wear”) were. It may indeed have been mutton, or would have been mutton in their native countries, but they referred to it as lamb. In looking up the difference, I was surprised to discover that there’s even a third classification: “Hogget — a young male sheep or maiden ewe having no more than two permanent incisors in wear.” (I’m wondering what “maiden” means in this context.) The definition quotes above are from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_and_mutton.

By: Say Lee

Say Lee — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:33:01 +0000

Coming from a country where Islam is the official religion, I’m used to eating halal food while in the company of our Muslim friends. But I did not realize that the same word has been adopted in the English lexicon. A quick check using an online English dictionary reveals that the word is arabic in origin.

I believe what you refer to as lamb is known as mutton back home. As I recall, another major component of halal food back home is beef, but it does not seem to get mentioned in your article. Is beef not a staple halal meat choice in US , or is it just the NY area?

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:54:15 +0000

I love your essay on street foods, the vendors, the customers (let’s hear it for democracy!), and, especially, the menus. I never thought of hallal in quite the way you present the topic. While it’s not “kosher,” I do know of Muslims who seek out kosher when hallal is not readily available. Also, so many of the eastern Mediterranean dishes are Turkish in origin, including Gyros. Of course, Greeks and Israelis may object…