I'm gonna quote what I heard said at a filksong session at last year's Duckcon SF convention... I think it was by Tanya Huff, but I can't remember for certain.
"If you sing a song where a dog gets it, the dog owners applaud. If you sing a song where a cat gets it, the cat owners rush the stage."
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a prior engagement.
The .swf unjustly singles out one nationality. My brother reported that when he was living in a small town in Italy, similar rumors circulated regarding the meat served as rabbit in the local eateries.
When I lived in Athens in the early 1980ies, there were rumours there about suspect rabbit meat, and lamb kebabs that had meowed in their previous incarnation... and Athens always had an abundant surplus of stray cats....
Actually, I think very few people appreciate just how easy stray cats are to come by, and just how fast those felines reproduce. They reproduce almost as fast as rabbits. It's just that most stray kittens starve fairly quickly.
Cats are popular in places like the Aboriginal outback and some Asian countries precisely becuase they reproduce so fast and are so easy to come by.
In Ontario, it's illegal to buy game rabbits without the head still attached, because otherwise they're impossible to tell apart from cats. In my personal experience, though, a ready-to-prepare rabbit with no fur and no ears looks freakishly like a certain Mexican dog that shall remain nameless...
I think it was Harry Chapin. Had the pleasure of changing seats with him on a flight so he could sit with his young son just before his death. The son was accompanying him to a benefit concert. Seems he walked the walk. Seemed like a nice guy as well. Thanked me profusely and offered tickets to a concert if I wanted them.
The monosodium glutamate (MSG) that they put in this crap is probably worse for you than the cat meat. Anyway, people who diet extensively on prepared restaurant foods, rather than on ingredients they purchase themselves, are subject both to the whims and caprices of the cook and the balance sheets of the restaurant owner.
I remember reading the impressions of a Soviet army news reporter from after the battle of Stalingrad in 1942 and early 1943. Just before the battle, he reported, there had been tens of thousands of cats sunning themselves on the roof's of the city buildings. But with winter and the effects of the battle, they all more or less disappeared into the cook-pots either of equally hungry civilians, the Red Army, or the encircled Germans. Get hungry enough, and you'll eat anything.
I'm gonna quote what I heard said at a filksong session at last year's Duckcon SF convention... I think it was by Tanya Huff, but I can't remember for certain.
"If you sing a song where a dog gets it, the dog owners applaud. If you sing a song where a cat gets it, the cat owners rush the stage."
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a prior engagement.
*rushes the stage*
:)
The .swf unjustly singles out one nationality. My brother reported that when he was living in a small town in Italy, similar rumors circulated regarding the meat served as rabbit in the local eateries.
c'mon. cheap chicken legs and thighs can be had for 49 cents a pound or less. and you can be sure they buy the cheapest.
to make it work economically, you need an endless supply of stray cats or a pet store that sells a cat for under $5 or so.
When I lived in Athens in the early 1980ies, there were rumours there about suspect rabbit meat, and lamb kebabs that had meowed in their previous incarnation... and Athens always had an abundant surplus of stray cats....
Actually, I think very few people appreciate just how easy stray cats are to come by, and just how fast those felines reproduce. They reproduce almost as fast as rabbits. It's just that most stray kittens starve fairly quickly.
Cats are popular in places like the Aboriginal outback and some Asian countries precisely becuase they reproduce so fast and are so easy to come by.
Thanks guys, laughter is good medicine!
I always loved Cat Stevens & that song, my oh my is it sooo true. The Cats in the craddle!
I will be playing this through out the Day as I do things around here. THAT IS HYSTERICAL!!!
In Ontario, it's illegal to buy game rabbits without the head still attached, because otherwise they're impossible to tell apart from cats. In my personal experience, though, a ready-to-prepare rabbit with no fur and no ears looks freakishly like a certain Mexican dog that shall remain nameless...
giggle giggle:
I think it was Harry Chapin. Had the pleasure of changing seats with him on a flight so he could sit with his young son just before his death. The son was accompanying him to a benefit concert. Seems he walked the walk. Seemed like a nice guy as well. Thanked me profusely and offered tickets to a concert if I wanted them.
Lots of things taste wonderful as long as you don't know what they are.
The monosodium glutamate (MSG) that they put in this crap is probably worse for you than the cat meat. Anyway, people who diet extensively on prepared restaurant foods, rather than on ingredients they purchase themselves, are subject both to the whims and caprices of the cook and the balance sheets of the restaurant owner.
I remember reading the impressions of a Soviet army news reporter from after the battle of Stalingrad in 1942 and early 1943. Just before the battle, he reported, there had been tens of thousands of cats sunning themselves on the roof's of the city buildings. But with winter and the effects of the battle, they all more or less disappeared into the cook-pots either of equally hungry civilians, the Red Army, or the encircled Germans. Get hungry enough, and you'll eat anything.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI