After the Brussels attacks in March, one Melbourne poster offered: "Here we are Muslims and non-Muslims alike enjoying our HSP's, reading reviews and worrying about our assignment due dates when a bunch of dickheads go and kill innocent people around the world in the name of their barbaric ideologies …" That post got a couple of thousand likes.Īnyone anxious about the nation's supply of Vegemite and Nescafe being polluted by halal certification should get a load of the cultural boundaries that are blurred by this meaty snack. The "snack packs" – a styrofoam box of chips topped by cheese, kebab meat and a "holy trinity" of garlic, chilli and barbecue sauces, particular popular among high-schoolers – have become an inter-communal feast of brotherly (and sisterly) love. ![]() ![]() Meantime the Halal Snack Pack Appreciation Society, launched light-heartedly last December, now has more than 140,000 members – becoming in the process an accidental rallying point for opposition to anti-Muslim bigotry. The senator-elect then claimed, dubiously, that 98 per cent of Australians are opposed to halal certification. "It's not happening, not interested in halal, thank you," whined Pauline Hanson when ALP senator Sam Dastyari invited her out for a halal snack pack during Saturday night's coverage of the federal election.
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