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Snopes, the hoax investigation outfit, says this recipe appeared in a real cookbook, but was apparently meant as a joke. I don't know if it is meant to be offensive, but most anti-Arab bigotry plays on different tropes. Of course, some racist tropes do depend upon ridiculing the diet of others, but honestly, we all eat weird stuff. For example, I collect cookbooks and recently got an old international cookbook that, no joke, has a whale meat recipe. My mom, a true-born Connecticut Yankee, ate eels and horsemeat. Lewis and Clark ate dogs. My Scottish dad ate tripe, and tripe-bearing Scotch broth; I miss him whenever menudo is on my Mexican restaurant menu because he would have loved it. My weird food is probably periwinkle snails, which my dad prepared when I was a kid.


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stuffed-camel-recipe/