> >Well, in some places in SE Asia, people eat dogs. I thought it was an
Urban
> Legend until I looked it up. They still do it. Dog is supposed to make men
> more macho, so to speak.
>
> I used to work with an RN who immigrated from Vietnam when she was 12.
> Once, another coworker was trying to give away puppies and Anna was
> interested. I teased, "NO! Don't give Anna a puppy! She's Vietnamese and
> they eat them!" (Please understand that I knew Anna very well and she
> understood just how much respect I truly have for her culture. As a
> Buddhist, she and I often joked that I had been Asian in a previous life.)
> She told me that it was true that poor people eat dogs because they cannot
> afford better meat. She said, "I would always cry when I saw someone
> leading a dog home from the market because I knew what would happen." But
> she assured me that dog was really low class meat... (Not like gerbil
I had (well, have, actually) a Chinese friend at school who complains
bitterly that you can't get good rat in the U.S. He went on and on about
it, how the rat here tastes funny. I thought he was joking, until one day
he got a package from home... Yeesh.
I always liked the story of the origin of the Vietnamiese pot bellied pigs
as pets. They keep the little guys for a couple years as household pets,
and then cook the little guys up. How has this become a thread?
