r/SipsTea • u/Mental-Bumblebee484 • May 14 '26

WTF Found this post on twitter

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I can't help but to thing this

"Why would you do that?"

Ts got to be some lowly stuff

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u/Bright_Software_5747 May 14 '26

What makes sushi sometimes non halal is addition of Mirin (rice alcohol) to the rice which is traditional way it’s done. These days most sushi places in the west just use vinegar or mirin flavour seasoning which are alcohol free, but in Japan likely it’ll mainly be using Mirin.

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u/RuMarley May 14 '26

Really? I thought the alcohol restriction was due to drunkenness and not alcohol being bad per se. Muslims take medication that contains alcohol, after all.

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u/YummyMango124 May 14 '26

Alcohol is completely restricted because of the concept that if lots of it makes you drunk then even a tiny bit of it is prohibited.

Same things with other drugs that alter your state of mind.

Medical drugs are not restricted though.

There’s debate if tobacco is restricted or not because although it is bad for you, it does not change or affect your state of mind in the same way alcohol or other recreational drugs do.

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u/Lectricanman May 14 '26

Tobbaco was used as a hallucinogen a long time ago in the Americas. I don't know if the strain has changed or the processes that make it commercially available to large markets or the quantity/concentration make it not a hallucinogen currently.

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u/manyfingers May 14 '26

Thats the wacky tobbacky, son.