If Michael Vick knew about this he could have sent his dogs that couldn’t do well in dogfights here:
NORTH Korea’s state media is talking up the virtues of dog meat, saying the controversial cuisine is a prized delicacy for coping with the summer heat.
Dog soup, called dangogi-jang or boshintang (health soup), is “the best cuisine†served over the summer season, the official Korean Central News Agency said, yesterday touting its nutritional properties.
Dangogi, literally meaning sweet meat, is an euphemism for dog meat that was coined by North Korea’s founder Kim Il-sung in the early 1980s.Dangogi-jang means dog meat soup.
“These days workers sweating to taste boshintang can be witnessed in any Dangogi houses and traditional restaurants in the capital of Pyongyang,†the agency said.
While dog meat restaurants are assuming a lower profile in South Korea, the reverse is true in the impoverished North.
So in North Korea, when they walk their dog they really wok their dog.
In North Korea, not only can life be a bitch, but your meal can be, too.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.