(06-21-2012, 09:45 PM)reydempto Wrote: I thought in china the "disgusting" thing people ate was cat.
This is a little unrelated, but not really. I used to live in Joliet Illinois, and there was an "All You Can Eat" style chinese restaurant there called "Joyce Lee China Buffet". They got shut down because health inspectors found dead cats un-skinned, as well as skinned and prepared cat meats in their coolers. This sounds like a total urban legend, right? Well I remember it like it was yesterday, even though it was about 10 years ago now. My stepmom and I would go there almost every weekend while we did our shopping, and it was horrifying to read about what we had been eating. Yeah, the whole thing was written up in the local Herald newspaper. The owners were arrested, a couple were deported...and I didn't eat chinese food from a restaurant until I moved to Europe, 8 years later... where the food laws are more intense than most drug laws.
Let this be a little bit of a cautionary tale to you all. It's a commonly told story, "how's the cat?", but it's not funny when you find out you've actually been eating the neighborhood pets for a few years running.
This also reminds me of the Cheech and Chong bit from "Up in smoke", when Chong gets a burrito in mexico:
"Hey man, how can you eat that stuff? You know it's probably dog in there"
"Good dog, man."
I haven't had any experience with Chinese who ate cats. However, there was a time when I lived near a factory which employed quite a lot of Vietnamese laborers. Cats disappeared mysteriously. People suspected that the Vietnamese were responsible. I am not too sure because I haven't heard of anyone catching them red-handed. I do know that someone had stolen my ducks, though. Maybe it was the Vietnamese. Maybe it was just some other people.
The point I am trying to make is that when strange things happen, strangers are the first suspects.
