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 butchered in the Orthodox.] > > There is a large Jewish community in Mexico City, so the hotel should > have no problem shipping prepared kosher meals in. 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 at the hotel; he may > clear up my concerns by simply stating "the meat is bled immediately > after slaughter". I can assure you it is _not_ so. The meat is usually sold with some (although little) blood. > Yes, my friend is very sensitive to foods prepared in the presence of > nuts. This is another concern which may be alleviated as easily as > having a simple conversation with the chef at the hotel. > > Is there anyone who speaks Spanish who could take this on? Ted: As I told you privately before, I take seriously as my role to help whoever needs any information, regardless on who this is, as long as the requests are reasonable. Right now, I can tell you simply: I have not -and will not- talked with the cook because there are things I _know_ for sure. I know this country, I know Oaxtepec, I know the kind of hotel this is - The service is very good, but asking for something you call kosher but is not kosher in the eyes of the rest of the world is simply not acceptable. And I might be boycotting the good work put forward by the rest of the organizers, but _I_ will not continue this nonsense. We try hard to satisfy our attendees' (note that they are not customers or voters) needs. But there is a limit to it. We offer you the food we have at the hotel. Don't like it? Fine, don't have it. Eating out in Mexico is quite cheap, I am sure you can manage very decently with a budget of around US$10 a day. Still, I hope to see you here. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - gwolf@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF
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