Bobo Bonobo® wrote:

> I was just trying to make a funny.

<grin>

> I thought, well, people on this NG
> know that I'm not particularly fond of dogs, so they might actually
> believe that I had eaten dog. Turns out the reason my story was
> believable is because quite a few folks here have actually eaten dog.

I wasn't all that surprised. This group is world wide after all - and in
some cultures it's not an uncommon thing.

>
> When I was a teenager there was a Chinese restaurant that served it,
> but only to *special* customers who asked in Chinese. My buddy was a
> cook there. He was not allowed to touch anything in that freezer, and
> even the woks for preparing dog were kept strictly separate. They got
> caught one too many times by the health dept. and were closed down.
>
> I have never, nor would I ever unless faced with starvation, eat dog.
>

You have raised a controversial point there. Look at those folks whose
plane crashed in the mountains years ago - they ended up eating the
flesh of the people who had already died to stay alive themselves. Hope
I'm never faced with a situation like that, lemme tell ya.
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Cheers
Chatty Cathy