Poster: A snowHead
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Perhaps not in Switzerland . . . I'll go with the veggie option
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hot dog for me please.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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No wonder I sometimes feel "Ruff!!" in the morning.
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Masque, horse is served all over the place in Switzerland as well. No problems with that at all. I do have a problem with them bludgeoning the dogs to death though. The Chinese do that as well. There are also some horrific films of cats being boiled alive around the interweb. Nasty nasty stuff.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Classic bit of Daily Fail reporting story about Switzerland and illustrating with a photo from China! Any way how is that different to horse meat in other bits of the Alps?
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Wed 2-01-13 10:12; edited 1 time in total
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I don't have . . . much . . . of a prob with it, I've eaten lots of things over the years . . . Though I draw the line at most US food that I can't pull out of the ground and eat raw. Fried cat tastes no different than fried rabbit and squirrel is very tasty but you need half a dozen just for a snack.
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meat is meat.
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‘How unscrupulous can a society be that man eats his best friend?’ |
Dogs certainly aren't my best friend. I've kept more fish and birds as pets, and never had a dog, yet I'll still enjoy fish and poultry or game birds for dinner, what's the difference?
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Save the Birds, eat more Cats!
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Save trees, eat a beaver.
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It must be true it's from the daily scaremonger.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Note that you cannot be sold Dog (or cat) in Switzerland in a restaurant it's more that in certain regions it's a local favourite meat, Switzerland is made up of a bunch of different regions and each area has it's own dishes, the Canton of Bern will differ considerably in what you get to eat compared to say the Ticin in the south where instead of Rosti you are likely to get pasta, The Appenzell and St Gallen regions (St Gallen completely surrounds Appenzel) are different again the Appenzel are often regarded as the rural locals to many Swiss (regional jokes usually refer to the smell of the cow dung as the area is mainly rural with many farms) in much the same way as the English often joke about the Irish.
I've been to Switzerland many times and travelled all over the country (so much so that Swiss friends tell me I've seen more of their country than they have) but I've never had dog offered to me, I have however eaten some really great food their, they tend to take a certain level of pride in their food and I've only had bad meals on perhaps two occasions, both in restaurants that (unusually) were run by non Swiss, even the McDonalds in Interlaken serves very edible burgers, perhaps because they use Swiss Beef.
By law in Switzerland a restaurant must post somewhere where each of their different meats comes from, they also have very strict hygiene laws governing their kitchens, as per the norm the Daily Fail is posting a story that is out of proportion to the number of people it effects
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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D G Orf, buzzkill man, buzkill
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You know it makes sense.
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Scarpa wrote: |
Save trees, eat a beaver. |
How does that save trees?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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beavers eat trees.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Steilhang, if you have to ask . . .
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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If dogs are reared and slaughtered in a humane fashion I don't see the problem. I do think it's a little hypocritical for people who will happily gobble other species of animal (often without the slightest thought about the conditions in which they are kept - hence the big sales of cheapo chickens and Danish bacon) to get het up about the gastronomic habits of other meat eaters.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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i'm with pam w. I wouldn't want to eat my own dog, but he wasn't reared for meat. As a teenager on a French exchange - my French family owned a hotel - I was offered "de la viande", a bit like beef and a bit like pork, which I realised later was almost certainly horsemeat.
"Steack a cheval" (I think that's how they spell it), or "pferdefleisch", is openly offered in Swiss supermarkets. I presume that, somewhere, horses are reared for meat and I can't see the difference between that and cows, or pigs, or indeed, dogs. The one justifiable concern IMO is that it is done humanely.
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sanman wrote: |
"Steack a cheval" (I think that's how they spell it), or "pferdefleisch", is openly offered in Swiss supermarkets. I presume that, somewhere, horses are reared for meat. |
I think that's called the New Forest . . .
and . . . I'm running
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Masque wrote: |
Steilhang, if you have to ask . . . |
Oh... that kind of Beaver!
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Gotta love those short, un-referenced articles with unlabelled, unrelated shock photos throughout... I wish i worked for the daily mail, it looks like fun!!
That said, I work in St. Gallen so I'm gonna ask about it when i go back in on monday!
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At the cinema in Geneva the other day I bought hot dogs for the family and I.
Maybe I should stick to popcorn and nachos in the future.
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