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Dig Deep- The Puppies in the Bottom!!!

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Anonymous

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing has asked hotels and restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the duration of next month's Olympics and September's Paralympics.

Dog is eaten not only by the large Korean community in China's capital but is also popular in Yunnan and Guizhou restaurants.

A directive from the Beijing Food Safety Office issued last month ordered Olympic contractor hotels not to provide any dishes made with dog meat and said any canine material used in traditional medicated diets must be clearly labeled.

Concerned that canine dishes might offend animal rights groups and Western visitors, Beijing said restaurants expected to be popular among foreign visitors must stop serving dog meat "to respect the dining customs of different countries."

The directive "advocated" that all restaurants serving dog suspend it during the Olympics but made no mention of the many popular establishments with donkey on the menu.

Criticism from Westerners caused the dog meat-loving South Koreans to ban canine dishes for a period of time during the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
 

DiamondSCattleCo

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While I certainly wouldn't want to eat Fluffy burgers, don't you find it interesting that we Westerners complained until Korea removed it from the menu? I can think of several Western traditions that would probably gross out foreigners, but at least they'd have the class not to say anything about it.

Rod
 

per

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We are a rather finicky bunch. Having spent some time over there I can say that dog and cat are not that bad. If you don't want to eat fluffy then don't order that dish. If you are eating at a local establishment the menu isn't in English so you don't know anyway! :wink:
 

DiamondSCattleCo

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per said:
I can say that dog and cat are not that bad.

<chuckle> Quite a few years back when I was working in the city, I ordered Chinese food from a new place that I hadn't tried before. It was tasty and the portions were very large. The next morning when I was listening to the radio, the restaurant had been shut down that same night by food safety cops for serving cat, dog, and deer meat. That didn't bother me all that much, but then they also mentioned "unidentifiable meat". That kinda turned my stomach a bit. I also apologized to the cat for turning him into a cannibal.

Rod
 
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per said:
We are a rather finicky bunch. Having spent some time over there I can say that dog and cat are not that bad. If you don't want to eat fluffy then don't order that dish. If you are eating at a local establishment the menu isn't in English so you don't know anyway! :wink:


Some of the old Indians used to say the same thing- that it was quite a delicacy...
One Indian fellow I grew up with that was Assiniboine used to always say that "Dig Deep- the puppies in the bottom" when I'd eat at their place- and his Sioux wife would always thump him and tell him she won't cook dog-- its just you Assiniboines that are dog eaters...

Never "knowingly" ate dog- altho I've suspected it a time or two...
 

Texan

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Oldtimer said:
Never "knowingly" ate dog...
You must be a wuss. :lol:

If you were a real man, stuff like that wouldn't bother you:

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Kato

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I wonder if there is a relationship between the fact that the dog breed Chow is a popular meat dog in China, and the term chow being used to mean food. :shock:
 
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