I'M PRETTY SURE THE P.E.T.A. DEATH SQUAD IS AT MY FRONT DOOR RIGHT NOW

The globe trotting carnivorous blogger over at Weird Meats has a recent entry about his dog meat eating exploits in Shanghai. Yeah, dog meat. Awhile ago I created a list of all the meats I’ve consumed in my three decades as a proud animal eater. Dog wasn’t one of them. But I’d probably do it if given the chance.

To be honest, if I were ever kicking around a rain forest in South America and came upon a tribe of cannibals, I’d seriously think about sampling what’s in their fridge too—if they didn’t have me for lunch first. Besides, if you’re chillin’ with some cannibals, you probably don’t want to rock the boat too much.

But I digress. Weird Meats also has photos of the dog meat. It actually reminds of the strips of beef in get in my beef lo mein combo platter (I’m not insinuating anything, just making an observation based on appearance only). In Vietnam and some other countries, dog meat is actually somewhat expensive and eating it, according to a commenter on the Weird Meats post, is an activity reserved mainly for men. Sort of the same way eating cat is something women do. I’d assume.

Here’s a website devoted to dog meat. It’s called Delicious Dogs (Tagline: “Because, let’s face it, dogs are GOOD FOOD!”). Not that I’d know. Stupid societal taboos.