# Would you have any reservations eating dog? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474 "2009-07-27T19:50:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![otorophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3ab097/32.png) [@otorophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otorophile)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/1 "2009-07-27T19:50:46Z")
Assuming the animal has been bred for food and wasn’t a pet, I wouldn’t, but I’m sure I’m in the minority. Would you? If so, how is a dog different from a pig, sheep, or cow? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/2 "2009-07-27T20:08:40Z")
Dog must be very popular if you need reservations. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/3 "2009-07-27T20:09:10Z")
Well, I’ve seen what they’re willing to eat. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/4 "2009-07-27T20:10:50Z")
I would not eat dog. They are considered taboo among my people. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/5 "2009-07-27T20:23:35Z")
Assuming it was raised humanely for consumption purposes I’d have no particular qualms about eating dog. That said, for reasons completely unrelated to “oh, it’s so cute!” I don’t eat mammals and those reasons are just taken one level up by raising carnivores as a food source. But no, dogs aren’t, to my thinking, in a category unique from cows, pigs, sheep, etc. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/6 "2009-07-27T21:49:53Z")
If I was hungry enough, no. Hell, if I was starving I would try longpig. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/7 "2009-07-27T22:03:00Z")
I would and have when I was in the Western Pacific. The village had a celebration and it was the main course. I would have insulted the population of the entire island if I would have refused. I have also eaten cow, pig, fish, lamb, horse, mule, buffalo, monkey among others. It’s a meat. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/8 "2009-07-27T22:29:59Z")
I would, because, well, I like 'em. Cats, on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/9 "2009-07-27T22:36:20Z")
Just so long as it isn’t _my_ dog, sure, I’ll try a piece. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/10 "2009-07-27T22:41:32Z")
> [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](#): > > I would, because, well, I like 'em. Cats, on the other hand… I’ll take the opposite view of Mr. McClure here, whom I know from such films as _Alice’s Adventure Through the Windshield Glass_ and _The Revenge of Abe Lincoln_. I hate dogs and wouldn’t have any qualms with eating dog meat, provided it’s cooked decently. Cats I won’t eat. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/11 "2009-07-27T22:54:00Z")
I have, when I lived in Korea. The soup was pretty good, but the dog meat was rather fatty… I wasn’t that impressed. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/12 "2009-07-27T23:02:49Z")
I have been led to believe I have had dog meat in a stew, while eating at friends of my grandmothers in Browning, Montana. I don’t know if it’s true or not. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/13 "2009-07-27T23:08:20Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#): > > I have, when I lived in Korea. The soup was pretty good, but the dog meat was rather fatty… I wasn’t that impressed. An NPR reporter spent some time in S. Korea, and before he left, he asked a friend if it was true, and where he could go to eat dog meat. After he’d been in the restaurant for awhile, he noticed there were only men there. He asked the waiter why. He was told that dog was eaten as an aphrodisiac for men, and that nobody eats dog for any other reason. He was also told that the meat was not from pets, or from street dogs. Large dogs are raised for meat. So, it’s not Cocker au Vin. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/14 "2009-07-27T23:16:03Z")
Wasn’t Eating Dog one of the characters in Little Big Man? That might have been before there were reservations. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/15 "2009-07-28T00:21:18Z")
I don’t have any problems with eating dog. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/16 "2009-07-28T00:38:00Z")
I would have a problem. I could probably do it, but I won’t seek out the experience. I don’t mind the aspect of dogs being pets or companions. I’ve had dogs before. But I just think of a dog as a “dirty” animal. I know, makes no sense - the animals I do eat certainly aren’t any “cleaner”. But I have a mental association of dog=unclean. Probably the same mental process (in other humans) that lead to religious prohibitions on certain foods. Dogs do have personality, though. And personality goes a long way. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/17 "2009-07-28T02:13:37Z")
I’d probably skip dog. But guinea pig would be fine. Next time I’m in Peru… ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/18 "2009-07-28T02:23:59Z")
Nope, couldn’t do it. I think it’s because I have known dogs as individual personalities. I couldn’t eat horse either, for the same reason. I have never been personaly involved with a cow, pig, chicken or other typical farm animal. If I was, I guess I’d become vegitarian! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/19 "2009-07-28T02:50:16Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Wasn’t Eating Dog one of the characters in Little Big Man? That might have been before there were reservations. No, there were reservations back then. The Lakota just didn’t want to live on them. _rimshot_ ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474/20 "2009-07-28T03:13:22Z")
> [@GameHat](#): > > Dogs do have personality, though. And personality goes a long way. So if a pig had a nice personality, he would cease to be unclean? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-any-reservations-eating-dog/504474.md?page=2)