‘Hot dog’ name ban shows officials’ desire to take offence

In conversation with an Uber driver in Kuala Lumpur, it will never be long before he mentions hot dogs. They are a subject on everyone’s lips now, after Malaysian religious authorities denied halal certification to an American fast-food chain partly because, they said, the name “hot dog” would confuse Muslims.

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