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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
Geez. That doesn't infuriate me. It makes me sad, but I would have thought Lavoie a fool if he had chosen to die himself rather than eat his dog.
I wonder what the dog was surviving on before Lavoie killed him? There probably wasn't much left to the dog by the time Lavoie ate him.
In the Jamestown colony, during the "Starving Time" of 1609-10, people ate horses, dogs, rats, and, finally, each other.
Front-Ranger:
What is the most unusual thing you ever ate? For me, I guess it would be sea urchin. It was wonderful, but I wouldn't eat it often. In Scotland I ate (and loved) haggis and in Nepal I ate yak meat. That was pretty bland. There are more off-putting dishes here in America, IMHO. Okra! Fried pickles! In fact, anything fried kind of turns my stomach.
Thanks, friends, for talking about the Nov. 4 issue. It got lost in the chaos at my house. I dug it out of a pile of magazines that were going to the retirement home and now am enjoying reading through it. If I had missed it, it would be the first time in more than 15 years that I didn't read the food issue from cover to cover!
milomorris:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on November 14, 2013, 11:07:04 am ---On the Huffington Post, for example, one commenter wrote “I would rather eat my own limbs than my dogs.”
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Yeah...right. I'll believe that when it happens. Smack talk from HuffPuffers is often entertaining
Back when I was at Verizon, we had a software enginner on the web team who grew up in rural China. When he was a boy, his family made a move from one farming community to another. They had 2 dogs. His father was able to give one of the dogs away to a neighbor. Nobody wanted the second dog. The engineer's father killed it, his mother cooked it, and the family ate it. Nobody thought anything of it. Apparently, the Chinese do not look at pets the same way we do here in the west.
I would say that Lavoie is a brave man, and displayed a great deal of courage in this ordeal. He must have felt absolutely horrible about having to kill and eat a dog that he no doubt loved. Sometimes one has to make difficult choices.
milomorris:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 14, 2013, 12:48:11 pm ---What is the most unusual thing you ever ate?
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White trash.
And, BTW, Okra happens to be one of my favorite things in the world.
serious crayons:
--- Quote ---On the Huffington Post, for example, one commenter wrote “I would rather eat my own limbs ....”
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I wonder if anyone has ever done that. Move over, James Franco, a movie about that would be far grosser than 127 Hours.
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