That's a bizarre mistake, I wonder where it originated from. Perhaps it evolved from something vaguely resembling an actual terrine?

Usually in fine dining contexts this would be referred to as potato mille-feuille, sometimes potato pavé. I don't think you'll see this referred to as potato terrine outside of spammy recipe aggregator sites.

UAE generally lets trans people into the country, there are hundreds of ads on various trans escort sites. Grindr is full of transgender folks.

Transgender Emiratis are allowed to go through sex changes and live their lives, even if they don't get to change their gender on their government documents. But the same happens in Western countries https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/health/transgender-emiratis-have-case-rejected-by-uae-high-court-1.810021

> When they stop using Indian slave labor

It is less than honest to call people who voluntarily come to work for very high wages "slaves". How many Indian labourers in the UAE have you talked to? I like their food, so have met a bunch.

From a western perspective their stories sound crazy, many haven't seen their families for decades. On the other hand, they all tell me how they now own lots of land back home and can pay for their kids to go to university.

> respect women’s rights

You are correct, UAE is still behind on this. But the rapid liberalisation is undeniable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates#Law

It's also worth noting that non-muslims have completely different rules, https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/11/12/abu-dhabis-new-family-law-hailed-as-step-toward-gender-equality/

>The fact that they’re not as bad as the Saudis or Afghanistan doesn’t mean they’re “liberal.”

Nobody called the country "liberal" or even pleasant. What are you going on about?

They don't kill transgender people in the UAE.

Shit, even in shitholes like Iran they don't kill transgender people. The government will actually pay for you to have a sex change surgery.

Generally these countries have a far bigger problem with transvestites than transgender people, but if you're not passing MTF that's a problem.

Sure, but you're still more likely to have your ass kicked on the street as a transgender person walking around in Europe than in Abu Dhabi or Dubai.

It's indisputable that transgender people are almost universally hated, this problem is hardly exclusive to Islam.

Indeed, the rulers of the country understand very well that liberalisation is the only way forward and have been boiling the frog for decades. The Emiratis are super well taken care of, and have little to no incentive to pick fights with the bosses even if they don't necessarily fully agree with the more liberal policy.

By taking small steps, they've turned previously unthinkable things into facts of life, and the pace only continues to accelerate. The younger generations of Emiratis will have lived their entire lives in super westernized UAE, and almost certainly have studied in the west too.

I think we're talking about different things :) Most Western countries could be described as Christian, and I agree that the UAE is certainly Islamic in the same way. But it's not a theocracy like Iran that tries to impose Islamic values on foreigners moving into the country.

> That doesn’t mean Muslims don’t find Ramadan holy or they don’t care about Islamic values, they do very much care

Yes, on a personal level. Among themselves. Nobody is imposing these values on outsiders like Redditors often tend to believe.

> Also, restaurants stay open longer than usual during Ramadan so the people who were fasting can dine in them after they break their fast.

I'm well aware, but in practice the impact can be a little different. The more international restaurants serving alcohol tend to have a more rowdy party vibe in those later hours during Ramadan than otherwise.

A long ago restaurant opening times were restricted, later they weren’t allowed to sell alcohol and had to cover their windows so nobody can see in.

That’s all gone now, alcohol flows freely and restaurants operate normally during Ramadan. Well, not entirely normally, they actually stay open longer than usual.

> Not true.

Shit, they even decriminalised weed imports and legalised medical marijuana last year.

Any pre-prepared mixture which is allowed to cool is a terrine? That's certainly a unique take. (And surely you're serving these warm... right?)

It certainly doesn't even vaguely resemble any terrine you might find on google images, nor does it resemble the results for terrine de pomme de terre.

It's okay to be gay, it's not okay to be non-passing transgender. Nobody said the place is perfect.

Describing UAE as "Islamic" is kind of pushing it, when push comes to shove nobody gives a shit about "Islamic" values.

Turns out that in the end, even Ramadan wasn't holy enough to justify imposing restrictions on tourism.

It's perfectly okay to be gay in the UAE though. Only people to be penalised for homosexuality in the UAE in the past decades were people caught having sex in public, but their penalties weren't significantly more severe than they'd have been for a straight couple having sex in public.

How on earth is that a terrine?