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Do you eat the dog?

Imagine you're on a business trip to a foreign country. Your host takes you to a restaurant that serves exclusively dog meat dishes, which are considered an expensive delicacy usually reserved for special occasions. What would you do?



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22I don't want to eat dog, so I do the following:
9I don't want to eat dog, but I don't want to offend my host, so I:
13Sure, I'll try dog just this once because:
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they Bronze Star Survey Creator Survey Qualifier This user is on the site NOW (9 minutes ago)
posted 27-Jan-2004 1:42am  
I wouldn't eat it.. I would lie and claim to be vegetarian.
Beachcutie138
posted 27-Jan-2004 3:01am  
Tell them I'm really not that hungry because I had a large lunch.  * wince *
Irene007 Survey Central Subscriber Bronze Star Survey Creator
posted 27-Jan-2004 3:06am  
Sure just as long as I don't meet the animal before and see his cute face!
Dino
posted 27-Jan-2004 4:14am  
I probably would out of curiosity - sadly!
Maarten
posted 27-Jan-2004 7:09am  
Sure, why not? Millions of Koreans can't be wrong.
judgescratch
posted 27-Jan-2004 7:52am  
I don't want to eat dog, but I don't want to offend my host, so I order something with a lot of vegetables or something and pick around the dog, eating just a little of the meat for show.
bill Survey Central Gold Subscriber Double Gold Star Survey Creator
posted 27-Jan-2004 7:59am  
...kill myself.
pandora
posted 27-Jan-2004 8:16am  
I don't want to eat the dog, so I do the following: Don't eat it!!
justjulie
posted 27-Jan-2004 8:34am  
don't eat the dog, don't want to offend, so i play sick
ElvisFan67
posted 27-Jan-2004 8:48am  
I don't eat dog, so I'll just visit their local McDonald's.  * smile *
ROCKMAN
posted 27-Jan-2004 9:54am  
I've been to the Far East and have eaten dog a couple of times. It was pretty good. If you want to cook a Filipino dish that calls for dog and you don't want to steal your neighbors dog just substitute Lamb in it's place and it will taste fine. * smile *
ROCKMAN
(reply to ElvisFan67) posted 27-Jan-2004 9:56am  
And what do you think you'll get there? DOG! * raspberry *
Enheduanna Survey Central Subscriber
posted 27-Jan-2004 10:10am  
It seems a bit hypocritical for me to be expected to respect their dog-eating habits when they clearly haven't respected my non-dog-eating habits by taking me to this restaurant. I wouldn't eat the dog, and would either say I just wasn't hungry, or I would say point-blank that I wouldn't eat dog.
ASexyBabe
posted 27-Jan-2004 10:17am  
no way
caviartaste
posted 27-Jan-2004 10:29am  
I feign illness pretty well to get out of doing something....so I'd probably do that  * wink *
TeddyMiller Survey Central Gold Subscriber
posted 27-Jan-2004 10:46am  
This situation shouldn't come up. When he said he was taking me to a restaurant I'd have mentioned that there are certain foods I can't eat because they're not kosher, things like pork and shellfish. And then he'd ask about dog, I'd say that isn't kosher either, and he'd know not to take me to that restaurant.
autumnlight
posted 27-Jan-2004 11:04am  
I dont want to eat dog, so I dont eat.
Biggles Bronze Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier
posted 27-Jan-2004 12:23pm  
No, I'm a vegetarian. I would refuse as politely as possible, explaining that I don't eat meat. If, for some reason, I thought that would offend them I would say that I wasn't hungry. But the truth is always better.

I don't think eating dog is any worse than eating pig. I have seen pictures of awful conditions that dogs are kept in in some countries though. But I imagine pigs, etc. are kept in similar conditions in those countries.
romkey Survey Central Gold Subscriber
posted 27-Jan-2004 12:50pm  
vomit all over the place
ElvisFan67
(reply to ROCKMAN) posted 27-Jan-2004 12:59pm  
Not unless they start making hot dogs!  * wink *
Iseult Quadruple Gold Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier
posted 27-Jan-2004 2:13pm  
No, thank you. I don't eat meat.
seven
posted 27-Jan-2004 9:42pm  
Eat that dog.
Amanda
posted 27-Jan-2004 10:12pm  
I'd probably try it, just to see what it tasted like.
Violet
(reply to Maarten) posted 27-Jan-2004 11:43pm  
ha!  * raspberry *
Strider Survey Central Gold Subscriber Bronze Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier
posted 28-Jan-2004 12:08am  
I don't want to eat dog, so I do the following: Talk to the hist and expalian to Him,/Her that I have never eaten dog before and I don't really want to eat it.
CarolL Survey Qualifier
posted 28-Jan-2004 5:20am  
I'm not eating dog! Or rat or cat or bugs, either.
ihatespiders
posted 28-Jan-2004 1:30pm  
I would become a vegetarian. A freind of mine from Korea where I worked brought some food to work it was steamed rice and some kind of meat, I asked what kind of meat was it. She said if I tell you you wont eat it, I told her Im a vetearian,and didnt eat it,she never did say what kind of meat it was, some of my other friends tried it. I had to keep the lie going and only eat veggies when she sat with us at lunch.
mandy Gold Qualifier
posted 28-Jan-2004 4:42pm  
YES!
Glassa
posted 28-Jan-2004 6:50pm  
I guess I'd try it once. It would probably be an insult to the host if I refused. Some cultures are like that.
It wouldn't kill me and I might like it.
Zang
posted 29-Jan-2004 5:19pm  
I'd at least try a little. I can't imagine that I would chow down on great gobs of it, but I would eat a little. It isn't likely to hurt me. Probably doesn't taste much different than some other kind of meat...
southernyankee Bronze Star Survey Creator
posted 2-Feb-2004 9:30pm  
I'd probabbly fake a stomach crap or something. Hey, if you came down here and I offerered you some crawfish (which strangly people find them disgusting) I wouldnt be offended. More for us  * winking raspberry * . I think they'd understand.
ndjadesmommy
posted 3-Feb-2004 5:21am  
Tell them im a vegatarian
nasale
posted 3-Feb-2004 7:59pm  
Beat them over the head&run like a bat out of Hades. I don't care if its custom-its disgusting!
darkshadowsseeker
posted 4-Feb-2004 1:42pm  
I would be very polite, but inform my host that I am a vegetarian.
they Bronze Star Survey Creator Survey Qualifier This user is on the site NOW (9 minutes ago)
(reply to southernyankee) posted 4-Feb-2004 8:36pm  
ewww.. what's a "stomach crap"?  * wink *
freebird
posted 6-Feb-2004 6:29pm  
pretend I am eating the dog--oh this is sick.
leahdoll
posted 13-Feb-2004 6:50pm  
I'll try anything.
kitti723
posted 7-Mar-2004 3:21pm  
Plead Vegan
bombill
posted 9-Mar-2004 4:12am  
It'd be rude not to eat the dog, and I'd probably enjoy it as long as they didn't serve it whole.
A very good friend of mine recently lived in Korea and faced a very similar situation. Actually, he had it much worse. He was invited by a friend to a family meal where they served a rare delicacy: the crap pig. A lot of Koreans don't have indoor plumbing, and their waste is consumed by a pig that lives under the house. Every few years, they serve the pig as a meal. Talk about recycling! He said he couldn't stop thinking about how the meal was second hand crap from the people he was eating with. Ecch! However, it did help me realize that just about everything you eat is third hand if not second hand crap. Think about it: fertilizer to soil to vegetables, fertilizer to grass to cows, etc. Weird.
dora
posted 13-Mar-2004 11:32am  
I could try it, if it wasn't my dog.
Eating a cat it would be harder though.
pandawerkz
posted 13-Mar-2006 5:53pm  
Tell my host that I prefer cat
docgbrown
posted 22-Aug-2006 2:59pm  
Been there, ate dog for a week before I knew it was dog. It was VERY good.
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