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One can get horse meat in Japan too. (I think they mostly import it from France these days.) I had a nice cheval carpaccio there once, at the insistence of my Japanese hosts. It tasted good, but I have no desire to eat it again.

I don't intend to ever try dog. From what I've heard the meat of carnivores tastes unpleasant, but that might be folklore.

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Dog tastes nothing like chicken it's a much darker meat. I had it in China and it wasn't exactly unpleasant but definitely what we in the USA would describe as gamey. Basically pungent and heavy on flavor. The preparation I had was in Sichuan so they added tons of red chilies as well so it was very spicy. I wouldn't eat it again, once was enough.

the primary problem with dogs is that you don't know where they come from. there is no guarantee that dogs are raised in a healthy way specifically to be eaten, like sheep or chicken, but there is a high risk that the dogs are caught on the street, and have been feeding on whatever trash they found. and you don't know what kind of diseases they had either. basically, i would treat dogs like rats, unless the restaurant can certify that their dogs actually came from a farm for that purpose.

In many areas they actually torture and abuse the dogs while butchering them also because they think the adrenaline makes the meat less tough. If I knew back then what I know now I would probably have declined when it was offered.

> I've heard the meat of carnivores tastes unpleasant

People eating salmons and other predatory fish would disagree. Horse meat is really good, and dogs probably taste like chicken anyway ...

But no meat beats well-prepared tofu & seitan ;p

Agreed. I've only heard the legend in relation to land mammal carnivores.

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