Quite literally, this is one of the most frequent racist comments I get. "Have you eaten cat/dog before? How does cat/dog taste?"
Some asians do eat dog, but no. Just...no. Not everyone does. I have nothing against the people that do.
I kid you not, I get asked this question at least several times a month. Once there was a kid in elementary school that wouldn't SHUT UP about asians eating cats. He made this rhyme, "Ching chong, ching chong, you eat cats, so long." I tried explaining that I had never eaten a cat or dog and most asians don't, but he ignored that.
Most memorable occasions:
"I have a cousin who lives in China teaching poor children English...he says that Chinese people eat dogs. They serve it in restaurants, and eat it all the time."
(the way he said, "teaching poor children in English...," it was in this "I'm too good voice and I'm helping the peasants." Ugh. Honestly being in China likely pays more than what he could earn in the U.S.. And people, not all Chinese people are poor. I asked him how he knew that, and he tells me, "Because my cousin says they don't have cars." At this, I facepalmed so hard. Because, in China, there is overpopulation and air pollution, most people don't OWN CARS. That doesn't mean they're poor...cars are just not useful in China.)
me: "Where was this?"
him: "Taiwan."
me: "Eating cats and dogs is illegal in Taiwan"
him: "No it's not. They served it in a restaurant. "
me: "Yes it is, you can search the web."
Another incident, we were in Science class. Pandas came up somehow and someone straight up asks me, with a straight look in their eyes, what a panda tastes like.
Personally, I just stood there for a moment in like shock and just share a quick glance with this asian kid sitting next to me. We both just look at each other for a moment with this disappointed and kind of horrified look. Then, I look at the kid, and just to mess with him, I go, "They taste kind of like steak but juicer."
I had a good laugh over that.
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