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Cato Nova
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Username: Cato_nova
Post Number: 589
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 12:29 pm: |     |
What did it taste like? I have a sneaking suspicion someone recently fed me sliced schnauzer. |
Brett
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Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 1633
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 1:15 pm: | |
Not saying that I did eat dog.
But if I did eat dog, it would have tasted like sweet meat, and extremely well done. Also the pieces are stringy like pot roast.
Italy is not all Pasta and Sauce
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howardf
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Username: Howardf
Post Number: 308
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 5:34 pm: | |
Yuck. |
Bob K
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 8237
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 12:53 pm: | |
Dog is very popular in Korea. You go to the restaurant and then out back and pick out your meal, just like in some lobster houses. Delish!! |
Miss L Toe
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Username: Miss_l_toe
Post Number: 216
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 1:44 pm: | |
When we lived in Singapore we had a Filipina amah. She said that her dad back home in the Philippines ate dogs.
Another popular thing to eat in the Philippines is an almost-ready-to-hatch chick in its shell (I can't remember the name for it). It made me feel sick to even think about it...so when we had a vacation there I stuck to vegetarian food LOL! |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 6030
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 2:28 pm: | |
In China, Birdsnest soup is just that. The flavor comes from the saliva of birds used to bind together the twigs. A delicacy and like all delicacies, quite nasty. Sharks' fin soup ain't great either. People in China pointed out to me that they only eat dogs in the south of China and it's only "large dogs", meaning not the ones people typically keep as pets. |
redY67
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Username: Redy67
Post Number: 1203
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 2:49 pm: | |
They actually had those eggs on Survivor the other week. I couldn't watch!!  |
Spare_o
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Username: Spare_o
Post Number: 227
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 8:13 pm: | |
I remember seeing where birds' nests were "gathered" on a boat trip from Hong Kong to Guangzhou. It was kind of a big cave along the water. Lots of birds flying around, lots of scaffolding. I've never had birds' nest soup but shark fin soup wasn't bad. Wasn't worth the money but it wasn't bad. |
eliz
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Username: Eliz
Post Number: 1036
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 8:37 pm: | |
I was in China a few weeks ago and we were served (among other things) donkey head! Yes a whole head of a donkey on the table - what teeth still remained were facing me on the table.... I kept hearing Shrek's voice in my head "Donkeeeeeyyyyy!"
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susan1014
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Username: Susan1014
Post Number: 540
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 10:36 pm: | |
Actually, just looked up birds nest soup yesterday, (thanks to watching Iron Chef). The nests are basically saliva and seaweed, not twigs...like sharks fin, just another (unappealing to me) way to make a viscous soup.
I hadn't realized that birds nest soup is a dessert recipe...basically birds nests and sugar.
I also hadn't realized that enough quality birds nests to do an Iron Chef episode cost over $20,000. Partially because of the need to pick them off the ceiling of the very large caves mentioned above. |
Wilkanoid
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Username: Cseleosida
Post Number: 338
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 8:55 am: | |
Hmmm ... Bird's nest soup was a staple when I was a child, in our favorite Chinese restaurant where we would eat lunch on Sundays. It was gooooood.
I've never heard of this type of bird's nest served as a dessert. Maybe you're talking about a bird's nest made out of spun sugar? If you can point me to a recipe/article, I'd be interested in reading about it. |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 6038
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 11:07 am: | |
quote:The Omnivore
Learning to eat everything.
By Jeffrey Steingarten
http://slate.msn.com/toolbar.aspx?action=&id=3152
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VinnyM
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Username: Frodo
Post Number: 85
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 11:42 am: | |
I travelled South East Asia several years ago and ate Dog, birds nest soup, and shark fin soup. All were quite tasty. I also ate this sweet that looked like black goo, wrapped in a leaf. My partner couldn't believe I ate it because of the way it looked, but it was delicious. |
akb
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Username: Akb
Post Number: 292
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 9:47 am: | |
I can't eat sharkfin soup for many reasons, not least being that I was in Senegal several years ago and visited a beach where they dried the fins to be sent to Asia. The sight of acres of blackened shark fins covered, literally covered, with flies was only made worse by the rotting carcasses of the sharks whose bodies were not being harvested for anything other than the fin. I'm not a veggie but you couldn't pay me enough to eat that. |
Robert Little
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Username: Boblittle
Post Number: 161
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 12:48 pm: | |
Christmas, Quezon City, 1989. My host's friend had just baptised his baby. The protocol called for dog. The guys scoured the local streets and pounds but came up short. We had goat instead but they butchered it themselves.
J. Peterman could have told this better. |
monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 759
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 1:31 am: | |
I can't believe I missed this thread, among the menu items of the past, one must also include horse, cat, monkey brains, dog, alligator, armidillo, puffer fish (fugu, with just a wee bit of poison to get a tingle in the lips), whale, grasshopper, worms, kangaroo, maggot cheese, rattlesnake, turtle, blood, prairie oysters, ants, and a little bit of this & that. |
Wilkanoid
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Username: Cseleosida
Post Number: 344
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 8:41 am: | |
Robert --
I've never heard of baptism protocol calling for dog in the Philippines. Or dog pounds. On the other hand, I do love goat meat cooked the right way.
Are you sure they weren't just having a little fun with you?
W |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 1151
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 3:11 pm: | |
Glad I'm not eating my lunch as I read this thread. ICK! |
AlleyGater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 281
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 7:27 pm: | |
I am so irritated that this thread is still running. Could someone please kill it. It just saddens me to even see the subject line. I have a good sense of humor and I tried my best to just be light hearted about it all but then over time, I found myself wishing that it would just die. If everyone stops posting to it, it will eventually just disappear. I can hope can't I? |
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