Do the Chinese and Thai have unique-tasting crisps (chips) like, say, cat flavoured?
Just curious.
Since they eat cats, dogs, bugs and things – do they eat ketchup and pizza flavoured chips like us – or do they have their own?
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I didn’t know they ate cats and dogs…
I don’t think they eat cats… or dogs. Perhaps in some poor areas where food is sparse. But cat and dog isn’t a DELICACY in ANY Asian country.
Being an Asian, this question offends me slightly >_>
^There’s a running joke about dogs and Filipinos, though. Not sure if it is true or not.
^there is one for koreans too, but I am sure it is based off when times were horrible in these countries and food was hard to come by, not because they ENJOY it or anything. Kinda like how some people eat rabbits and squirrels out in red neck country
Well a Japanese hibachi grill in my old neighborhood got shut down by the health department b/c an inspector found skinned rotweilers hanging in their freezer. So maybe it’s Japanese?
And that is a true story.
Oh, and I’ve been to a market in Singapore where they had cat parts hanging for sale with other various meats.
But Asia does have soda products that taste different from ours b/c their pallets like other things. Coca-Cola sells a shitload of flavors that aren’t available here Stateside.
@Glow: Rabbit isn’t something ‘poor people in the country’ eat, it’s found in many dishes. And is not on the same level as squirrels or roadkill pretty much anywhere.
@Glow
“I’m offended by your asian generalization, but then I’m going to call rabbit ‘redneck country’ food”
You are self defeating
Rabbit is in now way redneck food. There are very fine ways to prepare rabbit in more than one country.
Most of this is NOT true!
There are some rural provinces in China that still eat cats, infact, there is a cat soup that is rumored to be especially good for you in the winter.
The western humane and pet keeping movement has arrived in many places. I just came back from 2 weeks in Taiwan and many people have tiny designer dogs dressed up just like neurotic americans do. There were many street cats and one little lady with a buddhist shrine in her iving room brought bags & bags otf chopped fish and meat for the cats every evening. It was very heartwarming and the cats were all very healthy and fat.
Ignorance is NOT bliss, it is ignorance!
Speak not of which you have no firsthand knowledge!
Ummm, there are meat markets in China that sell dogs and cats. Google it.
True..but I have never encountered them.
Mostly in very rural and poor provinces.
Rabbit isn’t necessarily a delicacy in America either. What is wrong with calling it red neck country food? I’m not saying it to insult the red neck culture, I am saying it to compare….
You are saying the question offended you, because it made a generalization, then you made a comment which can very easily be taken as a generalization of the same degree.
I have eaten at a lot of Chinese places, on only rarely have gotten dog.
No, they don’t make cat chips.
@tragiclikebowie
thank you.
oh, and cat is not just for poor provinces in China, it is just becoming less common due to the effects of Westernization.
@Captain_Fantasy
LOL, thanks! We all deviated from the question.
They don’t make cat or dog chips. BUT they do have unique flavors. A lady at work is Indonesian and brought in Shrimp flavored chips. They weren’t particularly appealing even though I love shrimp in general.
Well it is not a “generalization of the same degree”. You probably think I said it to offend red neck culture because I was offended by the question. If poor people out in the country like to eat rabbit and squirrels, this is similar to poor people in china eating cats and dogs. That is the point I am making. Quit making an argument out of nothing…
McDonalds serves Wasabi mayonaise with their fries ( killer! ) and I miss the dumplings and corn soup and Taiwan beer!
It is hard to get real chocolate for whatever reasons, actually had a REAL Mudpie at Hooters in Taipei city! lolololololol
I said “Can very easily be taken” . . . not “is”
I have it on good authority that cat is not good eating.
A Korean guy my husband used to work with was on a mission into Cambodia, during the Viet Nam war. They were dropped, then the plug got pulled & they were simply abandoned. He was one of the few who made it back out. He said dog was good, but cat- “terrible!”
My dad had a Korean friend in college who unknowingly served him cat one night. My dad said it was good. Maybe he was just lying about it though.
Also, more info on people eating dogs.
@Glow: It’s not an argument out of nothing, you were in the wrong. Move on.
@mrrich724 – doesn’t make my point any less true.
@asmonet – don’t see how I am wrong that poor people out in the country eating rabbits and squirrels is similar to poor Asian people eating cats and dogs. I AM moving on…
Now that I got to thinking about it. I am pretty sure in some developed parts of certain Asian countries, eating cats or dogs would be considered disgusting to them, regardless of their history with them. So making chips out of them would likely cause a lot of animal rights activists to speak out. I am sure some places will try to continue to use the animals to create certain dishes, but they probably do so in secret so as to not stir trouble.
I doubt it. However China and Vietnam are known to have cultures that accept the eating of cats. Also the people Vicenza in northern Italy also have this reputation. I think other cultures would only do so under famine conditions.
Glow, look it up. It’s not just the poor who do it. Many cultures and areas of the world do. Yes they are making motions to stop it, but they still do it, and widely so.
@tragiclikebowie – I’ll believe that. However, I’m sure that although it is widely done, I doubt it is widely accepted :/
Since all Chinese and Thai people always eat cats and dogs, I imagine they do. Just how we have cow flavored “crisps”. <sarcasm>
We have many types of chips : I love fish-satay chips, shrimp chips, and many varieties of banana chips, yam and tapioca chips, onion flavored, turnip chips and some other veges and fruit I don’t know what to call in English, we have papadums – yum, but that’s Indian, tehnically – basically, most plantain, legumes and tuber can be chopped then chipped. :D
BUT NO I DON’T EAT CATS!!!! I’m going to cry coz I’d rather me die of hunger first than my cat to die of hunger. OK, and I’m Chinese. So there. If I see any Chinese eating dog or cat meat I will campaign until they’re closed down and jailed. But I’ve noticed some immigrants (especially Vietnamese) who eye cats suspiciously and they pick up dog / cat food at supermarkets thinking the biscuits or can food are made FROM dog / cat meat! I had to try and explain to the foreigners it’s not a kind of snack for humans, it’s what we buy for pets we love, that’s why they cost more than luncheon meat or rice, per the same volume.
@shalom You’re Chinese and call yourself shalom? Interesting. I just saw some chips in a Philipino store which were “fish flavoured.”
Well yes….the closest other greeting I liked was assalaamualaikum but that doesn’t fly as well as Shalom as a username.
You could’ve used the Chinese greeting, or French or Greek or any other language. Why Hebrew?—Just curious.)
Coz the Hebrew version has a more inclusive, extensive meaning to what I wanted to express. I was also at a phase where I was reading up on Agnosticism. No equivalent I can find in Mandarin, Malay, Hokkien, Cantonese (I speak them) nor French and German (2 good friends, German and French teachers,asked them). Besides, as a girl I liked that androgynous model Shalom.
Cool. Welcome to fluther.
@shalom- You could have used Aloha as well.
@AstroChuck Yes, but aloha doesn’t mean peace, too. Right?
No, but it does mean love though.
Cool – I didn’t know that. I aloha you.
You guys should get a room.
I just realized we sell most of our crisps with pictures of cartoon dogs, cats, pandas, tigers on the packet. But no, not cat flavor because it doesn’t make economical sense to breed and slaughter them in bulk to make chips. Apart from fish and other seafood, most are plant-based. I love wasabi-coated peas, seaweed flavored chips, jackfruit chips, onion chips, papadums…..
@shalom Artificially cat-flavoured?
We don’t even know what cat tastes like – would make more economic sense to make it chicken or duck flavored since (I don’t want to think about it) probably tastes like chicken. And no, not artificially either – it’s just not a great marketing tool!
Do Americans have unique tasting cereal like, say, chicken flavored?
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