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Dining Dogma
February 5th, 2010A friend of mine came close to witnessing canine cuisine this morning when a neighborhood shih tzu decided to pick a fight with her 80 pound pit bull. Leashes prevailed, which is just as well. Shih tzu’s are Chinese, so the pit bull would have been hungry an hour later.
One good outcome from this encounter is that a cultural mystery has been solved. In many Asian regions, people eat dogs, which is more or less unheard of in Western civilianization (aside from Michael Vick). Shih tzu’s are the key to the cross-cultural riddle. These and other Asian breeds are small, annoying and perpetually agitated rodents. They are unpleasant, odiferous and no burglar takes them seriously.
They don’t even make good footballs.
In other words, the only thing you can do is eat them. I hypothesize that long ago one of those yapping rats was pestering a chef when the cook discovered there was no meat for the dish. With hungry customers waiting, and with a good half pound of protein circling his ankles, the chef decided to improvise, no doubt telling his clientele that the mystery meat tasted just like chicken.
Indeed, this clever culinarian was likely the first person to ever wok a dog.
