Another bizarre food…
Okay, maybe I’ve been looking at too many A-frames of late but this one really puzzled me. I initially thought that they had misspelled prosciutto but it seemed TOO wrong to be wrong, if you know what I mean. A quick query to the waitress and we were told “It’s like ham but halal”. I tried googling but to no avail so if anyone can enlighten me as to what ‘pusitto’ is, I’d be much obliged.
May 3rd, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Probably made of beef with the name similar to prosciutto for easier marketing. The second menu item’s salami is probably also beef – an attempt to capture some of the lucrative Hardware Lane breakfast trade, or at least not to exclude those who require halal.
May 5th, 2009 at 6:47 am
hi, these owners of this place are probably muslims (as i can undrestand from the name of the cafe: “masal” means “dream” both in Turkish and in Arabic- also I see some arabic writings on the black board) and therefore do not eat pork/ham. that’s why they came up with the ham-free version of prosciutto (probably only beef) and named it pussito:) to make it sound like prosciutto. i don’t think such a thing exists… they probably came up with the name to attract both muslims and any other religion…
May 6th, 2009 at 1:15 am
Here in France, we have turkey or chicken “ham” in halal places but it’s not like procsciutto, it’s cooked of course.
May 8th, 2009 at 5:17 am
I don’t even know what halal is.
May 30th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Good article, Thanks. my name Philip.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Mazal is the Hebrew word for luck. as for pisitto I have no idea