>>>>>>>>>Further to the assertions that people get all gooey when animals are mistreated but not humans, last year I highlighted the plight of that poor Iranian girl who was executed essentially for having been raped by her uncle but didn't get a sarcastic response.
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>>>>>>>>I'm not defending this practic, but not too long ago Korea was a very poor country. And when you have nothing to eat, anything that you can catch or yank out of the ground is food!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I agree that today this practice does not need to happen, certainly not the brutal, slow death of an animal.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>The practice of eating dog is a fading practice in Korea as the older generation dies off.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Well the quicker they do the better afaic!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>The thought of nothing to eat, as in the the seige of Stalingrad often makes me look at the pigeons in our park, and the seagulls nesting on our roofs, in a different way :-)
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>It's strange what can be called snack when you're hungry. Silk worm larva, roasted crickets and grass hoppers. Of the three I've has all of them except crickets. I returned to Korea in 2003, and tried to eat these things.... ah.... I couldn't. It just wasn't the same.
>>>>>
>>>>>If tat ever comes to the US I guess there'll be McCrickets.
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>>>>It would have to be ground-crickets because seeing their little antennea and legs sticking out from under the bun wouldn't be very appealing. :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Closest I've come is eating the worm out the bottom of a bottle of Mesquale. Had to get blotto on the Mesquale first thought! :-)
>>>>
>>>>What is that, something like Tequella?
>>>
>>>Sorry, I should say Mescale. Yes, only quite yellowish. I believe it's from the peyote plant (like a cactus?) from which we get mescaline) so there is some of the drug-effect in the liquor
>>>
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>>>>>>Oh, and I've never eaten a K-9 either.
>>>
>>>A Swedish man in a Swedish-korean restaurant (say the letters and numbers):
>>>
>>>Sw) F - U - N - E - K9?
>>>Waiter) 9 - V - F - N - 10 - E - K9
>>>Sw) O - F - U - N - E - X?
>>>Waiter) 9 - V - F - N - 10 - E - X
>>>Sw) Y - F - N - U - N - X?
>>>Waiter) D - K9 - F - E 10 - M
>>>Sw) I - C.
>>
>>
>>Ok see if I decipher this correctly.
>>
>>Sw) Have you any K9?
>>Waiter) No. We haven't any K9
>>Sw) Oh, Have you any eggs?
>>Waiter) No. We haven't any eggs.
>>Sw) Why haven't you any eggs?
>>Waiter) The K9 have eaten them.
>>Sw) I see.
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>Aye, but you're just supposed to have a giggle at it - not submit a term paper!!!! :-)

I did have a giggle, but I wasn't sure what I was giggling about.
Oh, the boss man is in. Must get to work.

Thanks.