Tastes like chicken?

Bosintang. Ever heard of it?

Well, it’s Dog Soup. Big item in Korea. Now, I’m not talking about the North Koreans, living on a starvation diet in Li’l Kim’s workers paradise. No, this is prosperous South Korea. Now get this….

The Seoul city government is seeking to classify man’s best friend as livestock in order to set food safety standards for South Korean lovers of dogmeat, officials say.

Somewhere between two and four million dogs are estimated to be consumed in South Korea every year, but the slaughtering and processing is carried out in dirty environments and poses a risks to diners’ health, they said.

Since dogs are not currently classed as livestock there are no hygiene regulations on their slaughter, officials said.   source

Now that your appetitites are whetted, here’s a nice recipe for bosintang

You will need:
dogmeat-photos.jpg100g of boiled dog meat, 500g of gravy, 20g of green onion, 10g of a leek, 10g of perilla leaves, 100g of taro stalk soaked in water. And, for the sauce, 8g of salt, 2g of mashed garlic, 3g of perilla, 2g of red pepper, 2g of mashed ginger, a little amount of pepper.

After boiling the dog meat with gravy and stalk of taro for some time, boil again after putting vegetables and other ingredients into it. Before eating, sprinkle pepper on it and put into an earthen bowl. The stalk of taro is to be kept in cold water one or two days to get rid of its smell and taste.

Yum, Yum…………Not.

I can’t help it. I think I would have to be near death from starvation before I would eat a dog. Call me closed-minded.

Woof woof.

11 Responses to “Tastes like chicken?”

  1. You must not hit the buffets very often.
    I…uh…ate dog once. Before you freak, I didn’t know it at the time, only after. My coworker was a Filipino who had moved to the U.S. when he was a child, after school he enlisted in the USAF and came to the P.I. He then married a Filipina who he had basically been promised to as a child, and she was a good ol’girl, not a former bar girl that so many of the other G.I.’s married.
    Anyway, one night when we were at work, she brought him a huge container of a stew, which looked to me like beef stew, and Ray offered to share. Well of course I accepted, and devoured the bowl of stew, and as I was thanking him, I asked him to tell his wife it was the best beef stew I had had in a long time. He turned and looked at me seriously, and said it wasn’t beef, but canine. I went….ohhhhhhhkaaaaaaaay.
    I felt ill. Then I thought to myself, idiot, a few minutes ago it was the best stew in the world, and now you want to hurl? Snap out of it, man, just remember to ask what it is first, from now on.

  2. Dinty Moore’s Dog Stew?
    How about, Campbell’s Cream of Collie Soup?

  3. Did you know that several dogs being raised for meat in South Korea came down with a bird flu virus (H3N2) that also causes illness among humans? A few dogs got the disease, it is believed, from eating raw diseased chickens, then it spread in a dog-to-dog transmission.. There is concern that if some dogs acquire H5N1 from eating raw, diseased chickens (which could happen given that H5N1 has been found among chickens again), it could spread between dogs and perhaps from dogs to humans.

  4. Oh Daddy….

    Poor Taco! THough she could feed several people.

    Ewww.

  5. Ahhh, the wonders of living in third world countries.

  6. Don’t tell Taco about the Korean family that moved in the neighborhood.

  7. well, I’ve went to Korea and taste it. but it wasn’t too bad. Still the dogs are poor but it’s Korean special culture (China eats monkey brain and even human babies)

  8. Yeah, it’s a cultural thing alright.

    The Thai’s are known for eating monkey brains, also, and in one remote area of Del Norte province, on Luzon island in the Philippines, one of the negrito tribes harvest the embryos from a pregnant dog for a delicacy.
    Me, I like my steak medium rare, my baked tater with butter and sour cream, and thousand island on my salad.

  9. I’ll take my steak medium well, my plantains grilled with butter and a rum/brown sugar glaze, and blue cheese on the green stuff.

  10. Always with the dessert, Swampie, always with the dessert.
    I seldom mess with them.

  11. I’ll take mine like n2l’s. Salad dressing varies, I’m kinda fickle not too picky.

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