Well, like I put in the subject line--"off Subject"! I was just adding onto
a previous email...
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From: Chris Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: Off subject, re: dog meat
> > >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?
