there are a lot of urban stories like that about other ethnic groups.

was it on the news? if so, it might be true.

 

Tell me a better use for cats????

 

what is wrong with eating cat?

 

It was suppose to be in the news,never saw it. I never eat there anyway. Makes me wonder about other urban myths and restaurants?
Megan

 

i hope its not true

 

That would make me extremely angry.

 

nothing wrong with eating cat in and of itself, but false advertising isn't OK. Especially since a lot of people (myself included) would would much prefer to NOT eat cat.

 

So, the old saying about----it tastes like chicken----is true?

 

Unless you have slave labor, I'd figure the cost of skinning a cat (in labor) would be more than the amount of meat obtained... in other words, cat would be a very expensive meat... even if the 'stock' were free!

Can still get chicken around here for ~60c/lb...

Now, if they utilized the fur, and made some jackets, it might be profitable...

 

Did Oggie run the place? LOL

 

Did Oggie run the place? LOL

hahahaha No kidding!

 

i don't know how true your example is, but i ate at a chinese restaurant that definately was busted for selling cat meat as chicken. it was a restaurant in hagerstown, maryland on route 40 and happened at least a decade ago. unfortunately, i am pretty sure the food i ate was indeed the cat. it was supposed to be chicken, but the texture was not like any chicken i have ever eaten and it had a sickening sweet taste. it wasn't really dark meat and it wasn't really white meat. i sort of caught on and pushed the meat to the side. that place was busted several years later.

 

meloc, that's the first time i ever heard one of those stories to be true.

around here, every time a new ethnic restaurant opens, the rumors fly. they get enough customers to stay open anyway, and soon the rumors die out.

 

Did Oggie run the place? LOL

No, but it was one of his faverite eating establishments.

 

Check your local health dept, or the state health dept online. I know not everyone does this but in VA we can search anyone with a food service permit and see all violations, fines, closing etc. in detail.

I think we have all heard the urban legends about Chinese food and cats, or dogs. In Korea Gaegogi is a delicacy, a.k.a. whatever canine was at the wrong place at the wrong time. In the U.S. MOST ethnic restaraunts try to walk a straight line after all it is not only their liviehood but whoever they may be supporting back home, plus they know us American's love ethnic food. Who knows, it could be true.

 

i don't know how true your example is, but i ate at a chinese restaurant that definately was busted for selling cat meat as chicken. it was a restaurant in hagerstown, maryland on route 40 and happened at least a decade ago. unfortunately, i am pretty sure the food i ate was indeed the cat. it was supposed to be chicken, but the texture was not like any chicken i have ever eaten and it had a sickening sweet taste. it wasn't really dark meat and it wasn't really white meat. i sort of caught on and pushed the meat to the side. that place was busted several years later.

You didn't have the urge to purr or meow after that, did you??

Hagerstown? Gosh we have stayed there several times. Never went for Chinese though. Thank goodness!!

 

There used to be a Chinese restaurant in Tulsa that we went too all the time. It started out as a very nice place, great food, good prices, but slowly went downhill over the years. The last time we ate there the "chicken" and "beef" both were very strange, weird texture, very odd taste and just the wrong color. I had already had to ask for clean silverware twice and had just pushed the food aside because it was just nasty...when two big fat cockroaches crawled down the wall and onto our table. :shudder:

On the way out, I noticed several other diners had pushed away full plates of food, and a couple actually looked green around the gills, and we saw several more roaches on the way out, funny we didn't see any when we came in or before we got our food or we would never have ordered. The following week the place was shut down with a huge notice on the door from the health department. Never did find out exactly why or what that meat was, but I still feel sick even thinking about it.

 

There is an area around here called Solvay, and originally the "joke" was that the Italians serving "rabbit" were really serving cat. Since then it has shifted to chinese food.

Isn't Hagerstown the last major place on 81 going south until Roanoke?

Kayleigh

 

pretty much...i guess there is martinsburg wv. this place was on the east side of 81 on route 40 (dual highway) near robinwood drive and HCC (community college). empire china sticks in my head, but i really can't remember the name.

no, i didn't have the urge to purr or meow, but i did hurt my back trying to bath myself.

 

When I was a teenager I used to get a couple egg rolls and wonton soup almost every day from the Ten Yen restaurant down the street. Went there one day to get my usual and there were all kinds of official men there and they told me I would have to go somewhere else for lunch as they were closing this place down. That night there was a report on the news that they found 25 cats in the freezer. I'll never forget that one. I have to wonder how many times I ate cat without knowing.

 

When I was a teenager I used to get a couple egg rolls and wonton soup almost every day from the Ten Yen restaurant down the street. Went there one day to get my usual and there were all kinds of official men there and they told me I would have to go somewhere else for lunch as they were closing this place down. That night there was a report on the news that they found 25 cats in the freezer. I'll never forget that one. I have to wonder how many times I ate cat without knowing.

Did it taste purrrrrfect?

 

i'm sure it was the cat's meow.

 

So Few Recipes!

 

ROFL! I see Oggie is in good company around here. Can't believe he hasn't responded to this thread!

 

ROFL! I see Oggie is in good company around here. Can't believe he hasn't responded to this thread!

He's out rounding up cats to sell to the restaurants.


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