Ministry of Agriculture Announces Intention To Ban Dog Meat Trade

[Anglian]

There was a rumour in my local pub that the food inspectors had found a cat in the fridge of the local Chinese restaurant, no reports of missing pet cats had been given to the police.
One of the worst things I’ve seen Chinese eat is is baby ducklings from Unhatched eggs in a stew, I was offered a taster but kindly refused, I was told it was for women who had a miscarriage, it looked pretty awful

 

[R Cameron]

Are you familiar with the water engine?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_engine

There is a film by David Mamet called The Water Engine. In the story, an engineer invents a machine and process which converts water into energy usable in the same way as oil-based products, e.g, cars and other motors can run on water. As we can see from the link above, such a machine and process does or did in fact exist and was used for a few centuries. It's possible this process could have taken the place of products such as petroleum and its refined byproducts (gasoline, et cetera) and used to power cars and motorcycles. Of course, the petroleum industry would have had a lot to say about this, and very likely would have taken extreme and violent steps to stop it, as is the case in the movie.

No, the play and adapted film have nothing to do with anything based in reality. The wikipedia link you provided, if you look just a little bit closer, is very simply a mechanical wheel and piston driven by water pressure. Water isn't used as fuel, water pressure is converted into mechanical energy. This the same principle applied by every single hydro-electric power plant in the world, from the Hoover Dam, to the little generators I've seen used in kampungs that don't have PLN yet.

such a machine and process does or did in fact exist and was used for a few centuries.

No, it never existed, there is no conspiracy.

 

[Pak Asam Manis]

So is the issue here that it is a do

g or just the way it was killed?
How about cat meat? Funny we don't eat any of the feline species, even at the top, you don't eat lion or tiger MEAT

But dog? Hhhmmm

Is it the paws, or only cloven animals, goat, venison, moose, bison etc
Even emu, ostrich, snake, fugu, shark, jellyfish, croc, etc

Go to the UK and eat tripe, haggis, black pudding
All delicious
Even horse meat is popular in Europe
worms, scorpions, cockroaches, snails, spiders, larvae, humans pretty much eat anything, even each other

Some people eat pussy too I guess
And some like to eat cock

On this forum, some people even eat their own words
Or put their foot in their mouth

I have quite purposefully neglected to comment directly on any of your posts in this thread, as in my opinion there has been nothing actually worth noting about them.

But since you persist, let me take this opportunity to thank you for all of your superfluous, irrelevant and uninformative bits of fluff and snark, particularly this latest piece of gratuitous nonsense.

It's like "reading" the lint out of someone's bellybutton.

 

[snpark]

Well you still didn't reply or answer the question - is it the menu or the recipe? The dog or the method?

I forgot to mention Balut in Philippines - duck foetus yummy

 

[Puspawarna]

this latest piece of gratuitously vulgar nonsense.

For the benefit of any confused readers: the "vulgar" part has been deleted by the mods. We're pretty darn tolerant around here, and there is no way we would moderate "thread drift," which is a naturally occurring phenomenon and nothing to try to control (just as in real life, when you start a conversation with someone it may very well digress a long way from wherever it started). But off-topic vulgarity, when members report it, does run the risk of generating a mod action.

 

[waarmstrong]

Anglian has a long history of honest posts, both here and in the old forum. I also think he had no agenda and was genuinely posting when he posted his friend's story. I think it's grossly unfair to compare him with the Daily Mail, a source we all know is certainly not the most reliable one can find and quote.

Point taken. But suggesting that the use of hear-say to make a point constitutes an agenda is not any less unfair than Anglian's characterization of me as vulgar and insensitive.

 

[Anglian]

Point taken. But suggesting that the use of hear-say to make a point constitutes an agenda is not any less unfair than Anglian's characterization of me as vulgar and insensitive.

I apologize for calling you a cretin, shouldnt say that really but Warmie before you put your foot in your mouth, just google the Yulin dog meat festival, not only do they beat the dogs with iron bars they start to boil them before they are dead, another nasty thing I heard sitting around with Chinese friends having a beer after work, was that some Chinese have a monkeys head up in the middle of the table, they remove the top of the monkeys skull and eat the brains, sadly the monkey is still alive, true, I have no idea if that’s true, it’s not the sort of banquet I would attend, but that was also discussed, plus the cruel practice of removing live bears bile, for some none proven medical practice.being offered unhatched duckling stew took a refusal on that, but they really enjoyed eating them
I worked in China and Hong Kong several years and seen some strange dishes, so if a Chinese friend(s) tell me something I tend to believe them, so apologies for the cretin bit, but do consider your remarks about me more carefully

 

[waarmstrong]

You might want to rethink what seems to be a tendency to believe hearsay statements that conform to your views, however outlandish.