When a guy is trying way too hard to constantly prove he's not gay, he's covering.

i mean historically speaking that's probably a decent chunk of the reason for pork being against the dietary rules for those religions.

Probably because, even if you want to eat meat, it's easy go for alternatives. When it comes to alcohol, no easy alternative can be used.

Tbh, I’ve also known a lot of Jews who will eat a cheeseburger or shrimp, but not pork.

I grew up Catholic, but my dad can’t digest pork, so we never ate it or had it in the house growing up (turns out I can’t digest it either, which I didn’t learn until I inadvertently ate some at a restaurant as an adult). I’m now a vegan and I enjoy meat alternatives, but I have zero interest in anything that tries to seem like any pork products. I once got some ground fake meat that I thought was supposed to be beeflike, but it was modeled on pork and I had to give away the chili I had made because I couldn’t stomach it.

It’s a very strong taste and smell, so if you don’t grow up with it, it’s probably not something that actually appeals to you past curiosity about the whole bacon meme (it was way too heavy and the umami equivalent of sickly sweet imo and got stuck in my teeth more than I expected it to)

Kind of a tradition thing for me and my siblings. If you grew up thinking it's unedible then it becomes weird to eat.

For example most people from US would not eat cat meat even if they were given $10 to do it. No religious idea there it's just "culturally unedible."

This is different from octopus etc which are more so in "I didn't know people ate it but I was never told it can't be" or "neutral" territory.

Alcohol makes you look cool to your friends (at least they think so) and not eating pork makes you look cool to other muslims

Pigs are genetically really close to humans, so there's a lot of nasty stuff that can infect pigs that are transferable to humans. Probably way more cases of people getting parasites or diseases from pork than other protein sources in times past.

*c/

(Also it's Ramadan so alcohol is like double-forbidden now)

This is super common in Utah as well. Illicit drugs/alcohol are bad, but a doctor prescribes opiates so that's okay! Really hits women hard too since the only purpose you have is as a baby/homemaker, so getting high on prescription drugs is a fun hometime activity, just like it was back in the 50s!

Maybe a form of Folk Islam?

The discussion of consuption of alcohol in the Muslim world is widely discussed, because the scriptures talk about the wine of an specific fruit, so it can be interpreted as just that fruit to any substance that alter your senses. Depending on how you want to read it.

And the ones that use the 8 color rainbow are saying that they don't want any misunderstandings

I think it’s a weak signal and they don’t get any points for a(n almost) technically correct encoding

It's nice you remember the original commenter there are Muslims outside of the middle-east, and this shop may well be outside in the middle east, but it's unlikely it is Washington DC or Londen considering nobody would get a bottle for $799.99 or £799.99.