Earlier this month, government and ruling party officials agreed to introduce legislation by the year's end that would ban the centuries-old practice. Individual lawmakers have submitted similar anti-dog meat bills in the past, but this would be the first time for the government to back such legislation.
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My dad's favorite story about when he was stationed in Korea back in the early 1960s was that he had stopped in at an eatery in a small village and had ordered a sandwich. He said he had complimented the food to the woman that served him and asked what it was and she said "Buppy".
"Buppy? What's buppy?" he asked.
"Buppy," she said with a puzzled look on her face. "You know, small dog?" holding her hands about 6 inches apart.
When I was a kid, we had a bunch of friends that lived in the Indian Reservation up in South Dakota. We were invited for dinner, and one of the times we had Puppy dog Stew. Of course they mentioned it after we had consumed, ha ha, but really it wasn't too bad tasting. We were a little more skeptical after that when going over to visit lol.
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Did the coppers use police dogs to break it up?
ReplyDeleteI hate to even think of "dog farming". How can two cultures with such a fundamental difference ever meet?
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed a variety of dog entrees while stationed there. My favorite was dog stew, amazingly good!
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Bosintang (보신탕; 補身湯); Gaejangguk (개장국) Stew containing boiled dog meat and vegetables.[49]
Gaegogi Jeongol (개고기 전골) – An elaborate dog stew made in a large Jeongol pan.
Gae Suyuk (개 수육; 개水肉)- Boiled dog meat[49]
Gaegogi Muchim (개고기 무침) – Steamed dog meat, Korean leeks (부추), and vegetables mixed with spices[49]
Gaesoju (개소주; 개燒酒) – Mixed drink containing dog meat and other Chinese medicine ingredients such as ginger, chestnut, and jujube to invigorate one's health.[50][51]
Demolition Man, ratburger. Its all in the preparation.
ReplyDeleteI stopped by a street vendor in Seoul and had some sort of meat on a stick. It was delicious! But the vendor never could tell me what it was...
ReplyDeleteAny WestPac Sailor could tell you if had been in Olongapo, it was likely monkey meat.
DeleteAnd there's a big yawning gap between "never could tell" and "never would tell"
Eat buppy or eat ze bugs?
ReplyDeleteCenturies old food getting cancelled?
I'm with the dog farmer.
Hohenfels Germany has a VERY large Korean Immigrant population, from all the fam that came over and joined the wife of guys who'd been stationed in Korea. Weird AF to see a Korean speaking German, anyways... This's 7th Army Training Command, the Euro NTC... this was in 1994 but the local "Chinese" Food shop run by the Koreans (they all look alike to the Germans) got shut the fuck down HARD when it came out that the short ribs and a LOT of 'other' dishes were sourcing their meat from the local missing dog and cat population, no fucking joke. It was a damned shame too... the food was fucking GREAT (I ate there all the time).
ReplyDeleteSame thing in Fort Hood in 1998... me and a buddy got food from a Korean place... it was supposed to be Bulgogi, but Nope, he'd just done a tour near the Z and both of us knew from the texture and taste it was Gaegogi, the stewed version... really good but his GF puked when we told her...
Mama Hands in downtown Killeen. They got hit for non-usda meat once or twice a year but man the bulgogi was the best l.
DeleteI used to hope it was dog and not rat.
ReplyDeleteYeah….. reminds me of a story related to me from a friend visiting Philippines; Do you eat the rat? No, of course not! Ahh, you have never been hungry.
ReplyDelete& by the grace of God, I trust I’ll never be.
Dirt worshiping savages.
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When you get the fortune cookie after your Chinese meal, the best one ever read: "That wasn't chicken".
ReplyDeleteWhen in mammson's hooch eating rice if it had meat in it, you did not ask. Rat meat n Rice nummer one chop chop GI. Or it could have been dog. Black meat I was sure was water buffalo. I used to see hunks for sale laying out on slabs covered with flies. Ya know they had pop corn. They put sand in a pot and heated it over the fire. Stirred in some kernals, put a cover on and set it off to the side. Then it was served and ya picked through the sand and ate gritty pop corn. At least that was life in the jungle. I never was in a city or even a town.
ReplyDeleteI had a puppy stew just outside Soul. That and a mystery meat were the two options. It was very good.
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