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- Air India has apologized and pulled copies of its inflight magazine after an article praising ‘non-vegetarian’ dishes.
Air India on Saturday apologised for an article in its inflight magazine referring to “non-vegetarian” dishes being served at the Jagannath temple at Puri in Odisha, NDTV reported. The article, titled ‘Devotion Can Be Delicious’, was published in the October edition of the magazine, Shubh Yatra.
The article said the Jagannath temple’s kitchen was “said to be largest in the country”, with “an army of 500 cooks and 300 helpers to serve 100,000 people every day, round the clock”, according to The Times of India. The article said this meant that “almost 285 varieties of vegetarian and non-vegetarian” dishes were being served at the temple every day.
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I still don’t understand what’s going on with this Air India article, even after going back up the chain to the original Times of India article. What is the complaint? Was it inaccurate, because actually the temple does not have non-vegetarian dishes? Or is it simply uncouth to mention that they do have them?
@ dbeach
A temple would never serve non-veg dishes. The article was inaccurate. The insult is the equivalent of suggesting that a Jewish or Muslim community center was serving delicious pork.