[athreyac8]

Dogs as food?

[ajb]

People will eat anything when necessary. This is a famous restaurant menu from the 1870 siege of Paris: https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Me...

It contains entries such as Consommé d'Eléphant, Le Civet de Kangourou, and Le Chat flanquè de Rats

[tibbydudeza]

Seems the Paris Zoo soon became empty :)

[mcv]

Even rat sounds fancy in French.

[mkl]

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat

[jaeckel]

While traveling SE Asia I didn't see that very often. Besides in some rural areas (and even there), dogs turned into pets as in western "civilization" and their owners didn't want to eat them anymore.

[OfSanguineFire]

When I was in Hanoi in 2010, in the central districts as unrural as you can get in Vietnam, skinned dog carcasses were hanging at a number of markets. If westernization has had an impact, it must be more recent than that. I’m curious to go back and see for myself.

[sampullman]

My understanding is that young people are starting to turn against dog meat consumption, but it's still very common in the north.

[Garlef]

In germany it was forbidden only in 1986. But it's been a taboo for a longer time.

[prmoustache]

Why not? Have you tasted one?