The high street takeaway dog/cat/pigeon myth

dd972

On a bit of an urban myth roll with my threads, this is another one I've always called B.S on, surely if you're the proprietor of an Indian / Chinese / Pizza takeaway or restaurant it's less hassle just to get the bloody chicken,beef or pork from the wholesalers than twat about in the alley out the back of the shop waiting for a passing domestic animal.

Antar Bolaeisk

You don't wait on them, you lay traps and pay off the local animal pound. Obviously.

johnny_knoxvile

dd972 wrote: »

On a bit of an urban myth roll with my threads, this is another one I've always called B.S on, surely if you're the proprietor of an Indian / Chinese / Pizza takeaway or restaurant it's less hassle just to get the bloody chicken,beef or pork from the wholesalers than twat about in the alley out the back of the shop waiting for a passing domestic animal.

Tesco do it...why can't the local Chinese.

Duggy747

You know you're in trouble when the cat you ordered tastes like dog.

Dravokivich

I think there was one instance of it happening in England, possibly somewhere around London. Due to the affectiveness of stereotyping, it was concluded that they're all at it.

Baneblade

dont forget seagull in the chicken curry
that said some of them are huge, good eating there

looking_around

lolz, back home,. We ordered a chinese, there were two dogs outside, after collecting the food and coming back out, my da still swears that one of the dogs were "killed", and refused to eat ~rolls eyes~

anncoates

Couldn't care less if they use orphan babies in my curry as long as it tastes good after 10 pints and it doesn't kill me.

AnonoBoy

There's a local chipper around my way that puts children in the burgers if they're bold and don't eat their veg or do their homework.


Or at least that's what my gran used to say.


She was always eating burgers from that chipper.


Cannibal Gran we used to call her. Loveable auld Cannibal Gran.

thunderdog

I had some weird looking meat when I was in China

It was some sort of noodle and egg type dish that I stupidly ordered from the side of the road. As I worked my way through it, there were all sorts of bits in there...a claw, a wing and a nice grizzly looking head.

Turned to my Chinese friend to ask her what the story was with this interesting delight..........turns out it was a pigeon.

Yum.

AnonoBoy

Pigeon is served in loads of restaurants in Ireland.

Just not mucky, disease-ridden street pigeon.

Anyone

dog,cat pigeon is the House Special.

Zebra3

When did towns in Ireland start to get high streets? Total Brit phrase.

Sadderday

heard a bloke in navan got a chinese meal and found a microchip in it. Brought it to the vet and vet confirmed it would have been in a dog, place got shut down

Jester144

Talking of urban myths - has anyone heard the one about the fellas who worked nights in a supermarket, in the bakery and errr passed the time by seeing how many ring donuts they could get on the end of their thingy. I know it's not cat/dog/pigeon but it is kind of meat related.......

Sadderday

heard of a place slicing tinned dogfood and selling as a bun burger

AnonoBoy

Jester144 wrote: »

Talking of urban myths - has anyone heard the one about the fellas who worked nights in a supermarket, in the bakery and errr passed the time by seeing how many ring donuts they could get on the end of their thingy. I know it's not cat/dog/pigeon but it is kind of meat related.......

I know a guy who used to work in a chipper in the 90's and one New Year's Eve himself and his co-workers played a game which involved putting their mickeys into snack boxes and then serving them to customers.

I'm not sure why you'd want to shove your todger into a box of hot fried chicken and chips but there you go.

gobnaitolunacy

They got some pretty funky food items back in the old country..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGTIs9fvkUA

It's not much of a stretch to hint that something other than chicken gets into your chow mein. If it happens here or in the uk all that often is anyone's guess.
http://www.thejournal.ie/cats-china-truck-754909-Jan2013/

Jester144

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I know a guy who used to work in a chipper in the 90's and one New Year's Eve himself and his co-workers played a game which involved putting their mickeys into snack boxes and then serving them to customers.

I'm not sure why you'd want to shove your todger into a box of hot fried chicken and chips but there you go.

Ewwww......like that joke.....what do women and KFC have in common...lol!!!!

AnonoBoy

Jester144 wrote: »

Ewwww......like that joke.....what do women and KFC have in common...lol!!!!

They're both found at the top of the Jervis Shopping Centre?

Lone Stone

A place i moved to about 17 years ago their was a Chinese take away. A lot of dogs and cats were going missing they were all found skinned and **** in the take away and it got closed down was in the local in the paper and everything.

Jester144

AnonoBoy wrote: »

They're both found at the top of the Jervis Shopping Centre?

Am I allowed to tell a rude joke on here, only I got a warning because I placed a post in the wrong place because I did not read the charter, and I don't want another one!

It's rude and sexist (I was just reminded of it by the snack box).

syklops

Jester144 wrote: »

Am I allowed to tell a rude joke on here, only I got a warning because I placed a post in the wrong place because I did not read the charter, and I don't want another one!

It's rude and sexist (I was just reminded of it by the snack box).

If its rude and sexist then this is the correct forum for it.

Johnny Drama_11

I believe they use greyhound as their meat is leaner.

Jester144

Q: What does a Kentucky Fried Chicken and a woman have in common?

A: If you take away the legs and the breast you're left with a smelly greasy box.


Not sure this was actually worth waiting for.

syklops

Jester144 wrote: »

Not sure this was actually worth waiting for.

No it wasn't. And if your vagina is greasy or smelly then you have a problem.

dd972

Zebra3 wrote: »

When did towns in Ireland start to get high streets? Total Brit phrase.

OK, Sraid or Bothar then

Killer Wench

You worried about dog, cat, or pigeon in your food when you've seriously been chomping away at horse?


Anyway, I haven't had it, but I know plenty of people who have had dog or puppy. Dogs are considered to be a delicacy in Asian cultures; we aren't talking about mangy, scrawny dogs that are diseased with tough meat. They grow dogs to be used for consumption, so no, I don't believe that myth.

As for puppy, several American Indian tribes have traditional meals that feature puppy; again, we are talking about plump, young dogs that are not diseased.

gobnaitolunacy

Zebra3 wrote: »

When did towns in Ireland start to get high streets? Total Brit phrase.

Dublin has a High St...so has Cork, Kilkenny, Balbriggan, Tullamore, Waterford...:D

dodderangler

Probably wouldn't eat a cat
Defo not a dog
Pigeon is beautiful and I think it's a lot better than chicken but not as nice as duck

true

Killer Wench wrote: »

You worried about dog, cat, or pigeon in your food when you've seriously been chomping away at horse?

9 out of 10 Chine restaurants use that argument to justify putting cat and dog meant in their food. In China nothing is wasted...not even dead pets.

Real Life

Killer Wench wrote: »

You worried about dog, cat, or pigeon in your food when you've seriously been chomping away at horse?


Anyway, I haven't had it, but I know plenty of people who have had dog or puppy. Dogs are considered to be a delicacy in Asian cultures; we aren't talking about mangy, scrawny dogs that are diseased with tough meat. They grow dogs to be used for consumption, so no, I don't believe that myth.

As for puppy, several American Indian tribes have traditional meals that feature puppy; again, we are talking about plump, young dogs that are not diseased.

Meat doesn't come much better for you than Horse

Killer Wench

The world must be ending as I've heard from true, Real Life.

wolfpawnat

According to the food safety lectures in UCD veterinary, there was a stage that fast food restaurants and ethnic food restaurants were indeed serving pigeon and other poultry as chicken and it was proven with food testing. But that was over 10 years ago and have been adhering to food safety laws for a long time.

I just think having a local Indian takeaway located next to the local vets just down the road from me is funny though!

Killer Wench

true wrote: »

9 out of 10 Chine restaurants use that argument to justify putting cat and dog meant in their food. In China nothing is wasted...not even dead pets.

A country with over a billion people and it is only recently emerging as a growing economic power with distinct class structures; are you really going to begrudge starving people from a chance to eat some kind of protein? What they do in their own country is one thing, but the perpetuation of these take-out myths are ridiculous.

Anyone

wolfpawnat wrote: »

According to the food safety lectures in UCD veterinary, there was a stage that fast food restaurants and ethnic food restaurants were indeed serving pigeon and other poultry as chicken and it was proven with food testing. But that was over 10 years ago and have been adhering to food safety laws for a long time.

I just think having a local Indian takeaway located next to the local vets just down the road from me is funny though!

Bit late calling in the vet if the poor pigeon is already in a curry.

wolfpawnat

Anyone wrote: »

Bit late calling in the vet if the poor pigeon is already in a curry.

On the up side, at least you can guarantee the meat was sourced locally!!!

Capt'n Midnight

Long story short,
fast food places here have been successfully prosecuted for using cat food.

Mariasofia

I dont care what the menu says that's not fu**cking chicken.

Basil Fawlty

Zebra3 wrote: »

When did towns in Ireland start to get high streets? Total Brit phrase.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=High+Street,+Dublin,+Ireland&hl=en&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=8.233484,18.874512&oq=high+street+ireladn&hnear=High+St,+Dublin,+County+Dublin,+Ireland&t=m&z=16

token101

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say as long as it tastes nice and doesn't do me any harm, with a few notable exceptions, I genuinely couldn't give a **** what's in my food really.

Havermeyer

Zebra3 wrote: »

When did towns in Ireland start to get high streets? Total Brit phrase.

Most towns in Ireland are streets. :pac:

Just add a post office, a pub, a mace, and hey-presto, you have yourself a town.

Nodster

back in the late 70's we use to catch mullet in Dun Laoghaire and sell them to one of the local chinese take aways for 40p each - enough for 10 cigs and a can of coke/mars bar

GHOST MGG

Walking home from work in leeson street years ago,saw blue sirens flashing at the canal
i went over and asked what had happened,i thought somebody had fallen in,then i noticed 2 chinese guys
in the back seat of the garda car..
long story short apparently they were using nets to capture the ducks that slept
on the little concrete ridge just before the waters edge..i was like holy ****!..something i always remember when im ordering chinese food to this day

token101

GHOST MGG wrote: »

Walking home from work in leeson street years ago,saw blue sirens flashing at the canal
i went over and asked what had happened,i thought somebody had fallen in,then i noticed 2 chinese guys
in the back seat of the garda car..
long story short apparently they were using nets to capture the ducks that slept
on the little concrete ridge just before the waters edge..i was like holy ****!..something i always remember when im ordering chinese food to this day

And? Someone has to catch the ducks! Might as well skip the supply chain and save a few quid. Reminds me of all that outrage about when the 'imagrents 'atin de swans outta de Lock' stuff was going around Cork city, would it have gotten as much time if it was the Ivory Tower importing swans from southern France?

Lingua Franca

There's not much eating on a cat.