Television Chef In A Stew Over Cat Casserole (Kung Pow Kat)

SKYNews ^ | 2.17.10 | Nick Pisa

[Sax]

An Italian television chef has been suspended after he horrified animal lovers and TV station managers by praising the delights of cat meat during a show.

Beppe Bigazzi enraged animal rights experts around the country when he gave advice on preparing ''tender, white cat meat'' in a portion of the programme usually reserved for advice about nutrition.

The 77-year-old is a co-presenter on Italy's version of Ready Steady Cook called La Prova del Cuoco (The Cooks' Challenge). ... During the show Mr Bigazzi said he had often eaten cat meat and found it ''tastier than other animals'', adding: ''I can assure you it's a delicacy, now I am going to get lots of letters.''

[Sax]

Bigazzi

[Jolla]

kity fajitas

[Poe White Trash]

Sounds like somebody had a tough time as a kid back in WWII!

[roamer_1]

Sorry, I had to...

[ConorMacNessa]

I’ll have the Kung Pao Trio - cat, rat and dog!

[Texas resident]

kitty k-bobs. Good use for a bobcat.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I’ve heard that when you eat dog it makes you feel all warm inside.

[norraad]

That's what we always called the Chinese restaurant when I was a kid, "Hey, who wants to go to the Kitty Kat Buffet?"

Never see any strays around there.

[Kartographer]

Kung Fu Kitties are on it!

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Salgak]

I'm hungry- where's that cat ?

[Daffynition]

[FlGoldwingGuy]

WOK those cats

[FlGoldwingGuy]

I love Cats..especially in a white sauce

[Daffynition]

[Castigar]

Never ate cat or dog but I would be up for trying it.

[Texas resident]

Tastes like spotted owl.

[Michigan Bowhunter]

‘’I was just trying to explain a saying from where I come from about the eating of cats. In the 30s and 40s they were very popular.’’

According to a recent report, there are an estimated 44 million pets living in Italy, 7.5 million of them cats.

Despite their popularity, however, around 150,000 animals are abandoned each year by their owners and there are at least 73,000 annual reports of mistreatment or abuse.

This seems like a MODEST PROPOSAL

[12Gauge687]

World Cat Day today? Who knew? I thought it was Ash Wednesday.

As a diet item, I’m sure it beats grass and leaves for nutritional value. During China’s Great Leap Forward in the Fifties, my relatives told me that after most of the animals were eaten, vegetation like the aforementioned was it.

[I still care]

When I read Corrie Ten Boom’s “The Hiding Place”, she talks about how their cat disappeared during WWII. She said, “In the winter of Holland’s hunger, not one cat or dog responded to my call”.

I still remember that line. It’s funny how death of a pet affects us. I mean, her father and several members of her family were murdered by the Nazis, and I remember the cat.

[bobjam]

“I love Cats..especially in a white sauce”

The meat is too stringy

[BigCinBigD]

Odd. He doesn’t look like one to eat...

[a fool in paradise]

That is a do-ca-rat. Stuff one inside the other.

[Sax]

Kinda looks like an the Italian version of Mr. Rogers.

"Meow, I can be your companion, and if the going gets rough, I can be marinated and slow cooked, meow."

That's right Henrietta, you are a true friend indeed.

[a fool in paradise]

The meat is too stringy

Depends on the cat's diet.

[a fool in paradise]

No, you wok the dog!

[BigCinBigD]

Kitty ona stick!

[polymuser]

Yep. Seems logical to eat an excess edible animal population than to gas and bury them, or let them suffer to death.

[shredderman]

Better than the “Chihuahua on a stick”!

[ansel12]

My father had eaten cat and he said that it is stringy.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

There is always cat jerky.

[Libloather]

...praising the delights of cat meat...

Not that there's anything wrong with that...