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Subject: Re: TRAVEL WARNING: Avoid the little tiger dish in Vietnam Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:28:01 -0600

"Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message
news:3jg1uv4u199inkithve0vsbbht33dihgg5@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:44:24 GMT, the renowned "Dieter Aa" > Aa@pandora.cu> wrote:
>
> >
> >"John Llort" schreef in bericht
> >news:brqe9c$6fua8$1@ID-155262.news.uni-berlin.de...
> >> In vietnam some places will offer the special "Little Tiger" disk to
> >> foreigners and not explain to them that the dish is practically cooked
> >cat.
> >> Unfortunately when you are served you cannot tell it is cat and the
meat
> >is
> >> confused for venison. This dish is commonly served in Can Tho, Bien Hoa
> >and
> >> sometimes Ho Chi Minh City.
> >>
> >
> >Where exactly can I eat that ?
> >How does it taste ?
>
> I imagine not so great, being a carnivore. And it's probably
> relatively expensive.
>

According to members of the Louis and Clark expedition Couger or Mountain
Lion was the tastiest meat they had ever eaten. Until I read this, I too,
thought that carnivor meat was not good to eat. Nevertheless, I don't think
I would be inclined to eat cat meat (if I knew what it was ahead of time) on
principle more than anything else, being a cat lover.

SD