Expensive eating

[Masta Flan]

Backstory: a friend of mine went to vietnam to gamble and lost money. Him and his friends went fishing and caught these to eat instead. Supposedly they cant buy meat from all their losses ...

Now I’m thinking wth?! Are these really still that threatened in the wild where people could just catch and eat them casually?

 

[tlindsey]

Backstory: a friend of mine went to vietnam to gamble and lost money. Him and his friends went fishing and caught these to eat instead. Supposedly they cant buy meat from all their losses ...

Now I’m thinking wth?! Are these really still that threatened in the wild where people could just catch and eat them casually?

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Wow! Nice Arowana too bad their dinner.

 

[esoxlucius]

In Vietnam dog meat is considered a delicacy so this dosen't surprise me one bit. Don't forget also that different countries, different cultures, different preference in diet.

In the UK over the past decade or so we've had a massive influx of East Europeans and they go nuts for coarse fish (carp especially). Coarse fishing is a huge pastime in the UK and thousands of commercial coarse fisheries were being plagued by east Europeans camping out at their fisheries catching all their prized assets and eating them!!! A lot of fisheries had to install state of the art security measures.

The east Europeans couldn't believe that something they did as a matter of course in their own countries was illegal in the UK.

 

[duanes]

As a soldier in Viet Nam, I would occasionally go thru an open food market, there was everything from baskets of gouramis for fish soup to rare animals like Pangolins for sale,
Many people kept a constantly pregnant female dog around for the tender meat of its puppies.
What is considered to be illegal to export to some countries, is often traditional fare for locals.
Where I live now, a fine and jail sentence has just been enacted for those who capture iguanas for sale as food.

 

[Fat Homer]

As others have said, basically its different strokes for different folks or in this case, different countries...

In China for example, dog meat is also considered normal food in some parts, along with any other animal that has its back facing the sky basically...

 

[krichardson]

In China for example, dog meat is also considered normal food in some parts, along with any other animal that has its back facing the sky basically...

A neighbor of mine who is from southeast Asia once boasted to me that "if it moves,we eat it."....some time afterward I declined an invitation to his cookout.

 

[Fat Homer]

^ Yup! That sounds about right for most asian countries to be honest...

 

[krichardson]

I'm normally rather adventurous and can be downright greedy when it comes to food but there are a few things where I draw the line...and cats,dogs and cockroaches top the list.

 

[duanes]

When I would go to the "vill" to spend the weekend near Phu Tai, we were often fed "hamburgers, or spaghetti with meat sauce", beef was not available, so my guess was it may have been that cute little puppy I had played with the night before.
Now days, Peacock Bass from Lake Gatun is seasonal favorite.

 

[krichardson]

When I would go to the "vill" to spend the weekend near Phu Tai, we were often fed "hamburgers, or spaghetti with meat sauce", beef was not available, so my guess was it may have been that cute little puppy I had played with the night before.
Now days, Peacock Bass from Lake Gatun is seasonal favorite.
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What kind of cichla are they and what's your recipe?
I was also wondering about the crackdown on iguanas,I thought that they were prolific breeders.They were all over the place in Puerto Rico.