Do Not break your fast with Mexican, Desi, or Fast Food---it only ends bad for you, your stomach, and the amount of nutrients you get to carry into the following day.


I went to a delicious mexican place with old friends from HS. They were hungry so they went to the restaurant early for some chips and appetizers and I found a park nearby to pray Asr, chill around, and then Maghrib after sunset.

First of all, my preferred sort of park to pray in are the seedy sort of sketchy ones with homeless people hanging out, because when you start whispering to yourself in a language no one understands, and then proceed to prostrate yourself on the grass repeatedly, people just assume you're another crazy in the park.

On the occasions where I have prayed at well-to-do family oriented parks, I worry that I'm making parents fear for their children's safety. Or at the least, I feel judged rather than accepted as yet another public park weirdo.

Most of this is in my mind though.

Neways, I picked up some saltines and water to break my fast on my way to rendezvous with my friends at the mexican restaurant.

Upon my arrival, my friend Lucy cheerfully noted that given my recent disinclination to eating for most of the day, my increasingly slight figure, and, when I do eat, my apparent predisposition for saltine crackers and water, my conversion to Islam during Ramadan means that I have somehow also inadvertently adopted the dietary habits of a fashion model.

The mexican food was delicious, and I am to this very hour (only one and a half hours till fajr) paying the price for my decision to eat there.