Jewish and Muslim people go on Chopped and are made to cook with pork and they make it work, one vegan goes on and refuses to use any meat products he’s given and they have an all veggie episode for him.
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The final basket had honey in it and e refers to it as a total nightmare scenario. Go talk to the Muslim woman who knocked out a pork loin without being able to taste her dish about dealing with nightmare baskets
My mum was watching a baking show where a 20 year old Muslim woman was a contestant. They had to make an alcoholic dessert. She nailed it despite not being able to taste it. When she mentioned that she couldnt (not as a complaint or excuse) everyone gawked at her and someone said “how old are you???”. Like, really?
I saw that one! Seemed like purposeful sabotage when your contestant can neither religiously or legally taste the ingredient
OK SO I HAVE A SOMEWHAT RELATED STORY
So around 2007 I was part of Business Icon, a Australian university competition kinda based on The Apprentice - you were put into teams and each day there was some kind of businessy type challenge your team had to do. If your team wins they advance, and then closer to the end I think they start eliminating people.
So my team won the first round, which was to organise a fundraiser for a local organisation in 48 hours. The main reason we won was because overnight, two of our team members - both devout Muslims - had canvassed their neighbourhood and raised a ton of money even before we started our fundraising event.
The next challenge was to design a drink and a marketing campaign for an alcoholic company. The two Muslim participants, by far the strongest competitors in the entire competition, ask if non-alcoholic drinks were an option - they’re told no, it’s against the rules. They decide that this is against their ethics and elect to drop out.
I’m frustrated that they were put in a situation where they had to either go against their beliefs or lose, given how hard they worked. I try to drop out too in solidarity (also, I grew up Muslim and totally understood where they were coming from, and thought the challenge was unfair for various reason). The organisers didn’t really let me - instead they said I could work on the ethics side of this challenge. So in our final presentation I talked about the ethics of marketing alcoholic drinks especially to our demographic (college kids for whom this may be their first time drinking) and how it can be exclusionary to groups who don’t drink for whatever reason.
Our team didn’t win, so we didn’t advance. (Actually I’m not sure if they started advancing individuals by this point, I just remembered that I didn’t get through, that I spent overnight vomiting because clearly I’m super stressed, and that the final Harry Potter book was released that same weekend so I went to a midnight release but remember NOTHING of it). The winning team had a pretty standard booze campaign but no discussion on ethics.
The next year when they did the competition again they started having an Ethics judging criteria. They also invited previous competitors to join a team as a mentor, so I did so. My mentee team started grumbling about the Ethics criterion and I told them I and a couple of strong but sabotaged competitors were the reason for it.