Retox Group Announces It’s Halal Free

[Hugh Cow]

Not in NZ which exports millions of sheep carcasses to the Middle east. All the animals are painlessly electrocuted before the halal guy slits their throats. Technically alive, but totally unconscious.

Those sheep must be kissing there arse to be so lucky.

[kmart]

Great marketing by Retox, as usual. They certainly know their customer base and will be laughing all the way to the bank.

[Dillinger]

^ So you think there are actually people out there who will see the non-halal sign and start patronising the place?

I doubt that very much, the kind of clientele Retox attracts go to that shit hole for one reason, the cheap stodgy food and beer. If a Halal Retox opened the opposite side of the road and was 5 baht cheaper a meal or beer then that one is the one that would be getting all the business.

[jabir]

...On the other side of the calculated marketing coin I saw only this morning an article about Nike running a Colin Kaepernick campaign now (long story if you don't follow American Football, but he's the guy that started the whole kneeling during the anthem protest).

Cunning marketing stunt that didn't go down too well, it seems.

[cyrille]

No such thing as bad publicity.

[AntRobertson]

Cunning marketing stunt that didn't go down too well, it seems.

Suppose that depends on your point of view.

One thing's for sure though, Nike would've calculated this on a profit/loss basis to the nth degree and taken into account some idiots burning their Nike kit in an irony and self-awareness free protest.

[jabir]

. Rextox attracts a lot of English Hooligans who are very Anti Muslim. I very much doubt this move has been made in the interests of animal welfare

Can't agree with that, lots of decent blokes at Retox, could be any hooligans you happened upon were convenient for your position but more or less average for similar types of eatery. Or you may be confusing Retox with the Dog's Bollocks.

[cyrille]

more or less average for similar types of eatery

Yes, that's what he means.

[kmart]

^ So you think there are actually people out there who will see the non-halal sign and start patronising the place?

I doubt that very much, the kind of clientele Retox attracts go to that shit hole for one reason, the cheap stodgy food and beer. If a Halal Retox opened the opposite side of the road and was 5 baht cheaper a meal or beer then that one is the one that would be getting all the business.

Maybe. It's sort of the "Wetherspoons" of Thailand. They certainly won't get much bad publicity for their marketing policy here.

[Begbie]

Rextox attracts a lot of English Hooligans who are very Anti Muslim. I very much doubt this move has been made in the interests of animal welfare.

Can't agree with that, lots of decent blokes at Retox, could be any hooligans you happened upon were convenient for your position but more or less average for similar types of eatery. Or you may be confusing Retox with the Dog's Bollocks.

Gary points out the obvious that putting up a notice to discourage Muslims is actually meant to attract English scum. If “decent blokes” want to patronize the place then the word decent has taken on a new meaning.

[Dillinger]

Maybe. It's sort of the "Wetherspoons" of Thailand. They certainly won't get much bad publicity for their marketing policy here.

Pound for pound JD Wetherspoon vs Retox would be like Tim Witherspoon in his heyday fighting Scottish Gary

[Dragonfly94]

Halal is a cruel, filthy, barbaric practice by modern day cave people, to be free of it is the way to go

[Loy Toy]

I doubt that very much, the kind of clientele Retox attracts go to that shit hole for one reason, the cheap stodgy food and beer

Many people have commented that the food is shite and a lot of farang Darksiders call the bar Defrost these days.

What they are good at is publicity and are packed when they get ex-premier league footballers on show.

[kmart]

Pound for pound JD Wetherspoon vs Retox would be like Tim Witherspoon in his heyday fighting Scottish Gary

You still won't let that P4P thing go, eh?

There are signs like this one still shown in Pattaya bars.

When recent Thai PM's and "statesmen" have unfavourably compared Indians to snakes, and farangs to cockroaches, don't hold your breath for any cultural sensitivity here in LOS.

[Dillinger]

You still won't let that P4P thing go, eh?

What they are good at is publicity and are packed when they get ex-premier league footballers on show.

And for Kmart, boxers too...Frank Bruno was doing a meet and greet there this year I believe

Here you go

[Dragonfly]

I drink in there every Sunday in life and watch the football. I thought that some folk might be interested that a British owned pub chain operating in Pattaya would suddenly ban all Halal food products. I thought that some folk here might be interested in debating the reasoning behind his highly unusual decision.
Then along comes a dullard like you who doesn't care yet still makes the time and effort to read the posts and make one of his own

so you are running a public announcement service for English racists who have a problem with Islam ? how nice,

I see your life is quite fulfilled with drinks and football in a crappy bar in Pattaya, indeed the high life of a worm

[Dragonfly94]

How many more times- Islam is NOT a race but a supremacist ideology, based on the rantings of a 7th century rapist and murderer. You have to have had your head in the sand for the past 25 years not to have a problem with it, unless you are one of course

[aging one]

^ Damn you were bad as xanax, you are worse as a buttplug clone...

Mods any chance to merge these two posters back into one?

xanaxThailand Expat

17-04-2011

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[Neo]

so you are running a public announcement service for English racists who have a problem with Islam ? how nice,

I see your life is quite fulfilled with drinks and football in a crappy bar in Pattaya, indeed the high life of a worm

Every day is a slow news day in Pattaya

[Loy Toy]

Every day is a slow news day in Pattaya

For fuck sake mate get on the Loy Toy Express............!

I need at least 4 secretaries to take the orders and I have more requests for appearances then that Elton John copy cat who can't sing on key. You know the bloke??????????I think it is Dillinger in disguise!

[taxexile]

It's sort of the "Wetherspoons" of Thailand.

most thai boozers aimed at the falang market along with the the florid bull-necked loud mouthed low rent pot bellied tattooed white trash along with their tarted up thai fishwives that make up their abhorrent customer base would have no trouble at all in making a wetherspoons look like the promenade bar at the dorchester.

[Scottish Gary]

so you are running a public announcement service for English racists who have a problem with Islam ? how nice,

I see your life is quite fulfilled with drinks and football in a crappy bar in Pattaya, indeed the high life of a worm

I drink there on a Sunday because I meet up with a couple of old boys from my hometown who like the big screens and cheap beer.
On my part when you live in Thailand and work in the oil industry you can have any kind of life you desire. We've got the dough to have that choice.
cheers

[sabang]

Pointless. Detox is non-Halal anyway, because it serves pork and alcohol. No strictly observant Islamite or Jew would go there anyway. And the many others that don't give a rats, what difference does it make except to make them feel unwelcome and drive them away?

If the rumors are true, Detox has more to worry about than cheap marketing stunts.

[Bogon]

^ Rumours?

[Loy Toy]

I drink there on a Sunday because I meet up with a couple of old boys from my hometown who like the big screens and cheap beer.

Have you ever been to the One Step Beyond Bar run by Kev and located on Siam Country Club Rd not far from Chicken Cross Rd?

Most of the patrons are Scottish Off Shore workers and are a good bunch of lads.

In fact the only other non-jock imbibers who frequent the bar are Sabang and I.