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Hungry North Koreans bristle as elites feast on expensive dog meat
Radio Free Asia ^ | 7/21/22 | Chang Gyu Ahn for RFA Korean

Posted on 04/23/2024 12:15:52 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Hungry North Koreans bristle as elites feast on expensive dog meat Food is in short supply and prices continue to rise, but the privileged aren’t feeling the squeeze. By Chang Gyu Ahn for RFA Korean 2022.07.21 Share Hungry North Koreans bristle as elites feast on expensive dog meat A file photo shows a North Korean soldier holding a badminton racket on the banks of the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong. REUTERS

While citizens in North Korea are nearly starving in the face of food price hikes and shortages, the country’s elite are feasting on one of the country’s most expensive delicacies: dog meat.

Meat of any kind is a rarity in the North Korean diet these days, and dog meat costs twice as much as pork. A single bowl of dog meat stew, called dangogi-jang, can cost the same as two kilograms of rice.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: dog; northkorea
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Eating dog meat is disgusting, but can somebody explain why dog meat is expensive? Are they taking Lady GaGa's french bulldogs?
1 posted on 04/23/2024 12:15:52 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

What constitutes expensive dog meat, does that mean a Chihuahua versus a German Shepard or some mutt versus a pure breed.


2 posted on 04/23/2024 12:17:05 PM PDT by srmanuel ( )
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To: DallasBiff

Why is dog meat so expensive, yet cat meat is cheap?

Hungry Norks wanna know.


3 posted on 04/23/2024 12:18:03 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: DallasBiff

They are probably bred to have a lot of muscle.


4 posted on 04/23/2024 12:19:25 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: DallasBiff

Kalkan used to have a cat food called “kitty stew” The name drew agruesome image in my kind.

BTW, what happened to all the”cheap” dog and cat food brands? Except for Purina and 9 Lives,they all look upscale.


5 posted on 04/23/2024 12:21:52 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: DallasBiff
I found a ripe barking dog that'd be good for the NK's.

https://youtu.be/YtlXkJGKwao?t=66

6 posted on 04/23/2024 12:22:50 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DallasBiff

The article is nearly two years old. I’m sure by now all NKs are just as pudgy as Rocket Boy.


7 posted on 04/23/2024 12:24:18 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: DallasBiff

In China they boil dogs and cats alive.


8 posted on 04/23/2024 12:26:28 PM PDT by dljordan (What do you think?)
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To: DallasBiff

Ate dog meat in S. Korea. Wasn’t disgusting, just wasn’t all that great. Marinated, grilled, and sauced the actual flavor of the meat was lost.

Also had cat in Hong Kong. Cat is disgusting. It does not taste like chicken.


9 posted on 04/23/2024 12:28:35 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: DallasBiff

Isn’t communism wonderful?


10 posted on 04/23/2024 12:36:24 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: DallasBiff

Our future if the leftists have their way.

Dog meat is probably expensive because dogs are probably pretty scarce. I’m guessing all the starving peasants ate most of them a long time ago.


11 posted on 04/23/2024 12:36:59 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: srmanuel
A friend of mine was in the Philippines sitting in a street cafe. His two local hosts were having a heated discussion as they looked out the window.

“What are you guy's talking about?”

“We're looking at the dogs in the street. He says the dark ones taste better, but I say the lighter ones are best. He's crazy - right!?”

12 posted on 04/23/2024 12:40:47 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Was that cat from Kentucky Fried Kitten?

Q: What’s the North Korean Jed Clampett’s favorite snack?

A: Wee doggies.


13 posted on 04/23/2024 12:42:28 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: DallasBiff

Maj. Frank Burns : [Hawkeye is elaborately eating while in surgical garb] All right, what's all that funny business there?

Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : There's nothing funny here to me, Frank. I happen to be very serious about this *delicious* piece of liver.

Maj. Frank Burns : Liver? Where'd you get liver? They're serving hamburger.

Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : This is mine and you can't have any.

Maj. Frank Burns : Okay, okay. But where did you get it?

Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : From that North Korean.

Maj. Frank Burns : What North Korean?

Maj. Frank Burns : You mean the one that...

Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : The one that croaked!

Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : [outraged] You touched my plate! You're not sterile! You've ruined my liver! Ruined it! And we're all out of North Koreans!

14 posted on 04/23/2024 12:46:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: metmom

This is a natural progression of things as all of their trees are stripped because they’ve eaten all the bark.


15 posted on 04/23/2024 12:46:45 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: DallasBiff

I would rather go hungry


16 posted on 04/23/2024 12:53:58 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: DallasBiff

That’s one place that could use a lot of insect protein.


17 posted on 04/23/2024 12:57:08 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: DallasBiff

And then there’s these;

https://upjoke.com/eat-dog-jokes

What Countries Eat Dogs? 17 Places And Why They Do It

https://www.thepamperedpup.com/what-countries-eat-dogs/


18 posted on 04/23/2024 1:02:58 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: DallasBiff
NOOOOOO!!!
19 posted on 04/23/2024 1:04:37 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Huskrrrr

lol


20 posted on 04/23/2024 1:16:36 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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