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‘DO THEY HATE US?’ MUSLIM FAMILY SAYS MCDONALD’S FISH SANDWICH WAS STUFFED WITH
BACON

By Julia Marnin

June 02, 2022 3:04 PM
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A Muslim family in Massachusetts filed a complaint against McDonald’s over a
fish sandwich with bacon. A mom says workers intentionally put bacon inside.
Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations



A Muslim family says McDonald’s workers purposely stuffed slices of bacon into a
fish sandwich — and charged extra for it in Massachusetts, according to a civil
rights group.

“It is commonly known that Islam forbids Muslims from eating pork,” a June 1
news release from the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR-MA) said. It called the incident a case of religious
discrimination.

The organization, along with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
(MCAD), filed a complaint against McDonald’s on behalf of a mother who ordered a
plain fish sandwich for her 7-year-old son in Chicopee in June 2021.



“My children now wonder if they are welcome in their own country. They ask me,
‘Do they hate us?,’” the mother, who emigrated from Yemen and now lives in
Chicopee, said in a statement. “How is a mother supposed to answer that
question?”

The franchise owner and operator of McDonald’s, Jorge Gomez, told McClatchy News
in an emailed statement that “these claims go against everything we stand for,
and we’re actively looking into the matter.”



“My organization has an unwavering commitment to ensure that, at every
interaction, all are welcome, comfortable and safe.”

McClatchy News left a message with a representative from Gomez Enterprises LLC,
the company that runs the McDonald’s in Chicopee and was also named in the
complaint.

When the woman in the claim goes out in public, she wears a hijab and an abaya,
which is “consistent with her Muslim faith,” the complaint said.

In June 2021, she arrived at the Chicopee McDonald’s, where she ordered a plain
fish sandwich for one of her twin sons, according to the complaint. This was
reiterated by the children, whom she asked to repeat the order “in case the
employee did not understand her due to her accent.”

One son told the worker “he wanted a ‘plain fish sandwich with nothing on it.’”



After receiving the sandwich and a few other items from another worker, the trio
walked to a playground to eat, the complaint said. When the one boy saw his fish
sandwich, “he exclaimed, ‘it’s khinzir (pig)!’” Alamhar looked and saw that
roughly four strips of bacon were added.

The complaint notes that this is more bacon than would typically be given upon
request. Additionally, the woman saw she was charged extra for the bacon on the
receipt.

This made her and her children “feel unwanted and worthless” and that the
workers were punishing them for their “faith and religious convictions,” the
woman’s statement said.

She did not want her son to eat the sandwich, but he was hungry so she
“reluctantly” let him eat a small portion of it, the complaint said.

A few hours later, the woman’s husband was shown what was left of their son’s
sandwich, as well as the receipt, and he went to speak with the manager at the
McDonald’s in Chicopee, according to the complaint.



“The manager acknowledged that it was highly unlikely” the employee who took the
order added bacon by accident and gave a refund, the complaint said.

“Religious discrimination at a place of public accommodation is not only
illegal, but also morally reprehensible,” said the legal director of CAIR-MA,
Barbara J. Dougan, in a statement.

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Julia Marnin is a McClatchy National Real-Time reporter covering the southeast
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Jersey and joined McClatchy in 2021. Previously, she’s written for Newsweek,
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