The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-01
GERMANS GIVEN TO crmo.HAcr.

GERMANS GIVEN TO cYNoPHAcY.
Dog Meat Considered Not Half bad Eat
Ing by Some People.
Il see by the cablegrams that the
German papers are constantly refarr-
ing 10 the high prices of meat foods
in the empire. These same papers also
complain OF h rigid regulations gov
erning the import of cattle and other
animals ft-as the world goes-for
food, on the hoof or as products. Well.
this German situation inspires a GER
tain line of reflection"
The foregoing remarks were delivered
recently by a man well known about
town In Chicago, and who has had
some queer experiences i'm this life.
He has Travelled widely. especially in
his W country; has been in places
where food was worth its net weight
I'm gold and has partaken of some
rare. IL not appetizing. dishes. He was
found when in a reminiscent and phil
osophic mood. and refreshed a group
of friends with his experiences.
This stringency against importa-
tons. according to the story. has re-
suited i'm some funny situations. The
fact that beef n pork, dead or alive,
is kept out of Germany to a great ex-
tent, so the papers say, has aused a
greatly Increased consumption uf
horse flesh. Why. IL Is said-of course
I don't vouch for the truth-that i'm
order to supply the poor mans crav-
ing for meat food dogs are being
slaughtered In several towns in the
empire. Hippophagy is no new thing
In Europe or America, as any ma
who has seen service in the Indian
wars can testify. The eating of dog
flesh, or cynophagy. heretofore mas
been confined largely to the aboligI-
mes.
But this thing of turning the house
hold pet into sausage or roast in Ger
many or anywhere else is like return
ing to first principles. | see the pa
pers gravely assert that dog slaugh-
ter houses have beer established in
Chemnitz, Leipzig, Dresden, Breslau.
Halle and other centers Of population.
In Dresden, owing to the severe tariff.
dog flesh costs from s to Z cents per
pound. No reference Is made to the
breed either. II the common yellow
cur brings 6 cents I upp dach-
shund is good for Is and Blenheim
would rank well up with quail and
prairie chicken.
Am | an advocate OF good dog meat
as a food? Well. no: l can't say that
I am. But lust get rid of a few pref
udices which mere environment has
erected and consider the thing from
a commercial and astronomical stand
point. Ii won't hurt and may help.
I am not willing to deliberately fly in
the face of the civilized world-al-
though I have seen some things among
the uncivilized we might emulate-and
declare for a radical overthrow of ira
ditions which have existed longer than
our COUNTRY But a little philosophy
will do no harm. Then we might get
down to the discussion of why dogs
meat should not be good.
Lets get at IL by degrees. Time
was-and stil is to a very great ex-
tent-when horse flesh was and is con-
sidered wholly unfit for human fool.
In fact. il you will look back over your
d files a few years ago you will
find accounts of cases where men were
arrested and tried for butchering SUI
pera nnuated horses. There was n great
hullabaloo i'm Chicago lest the pamper-
ed appetite be contaminated by the in
sertion of the teeth i'm old Blaze
Well IL was found that slaughter
houses where horses are killed were i'm
But a wave of relief swept
over the city when IL was learned that
the products go 10 Belgium.
Next TO France Belgium is the best
fed nation on earth. That is. the peo-
pie speak French. dine in the French
style with food cooked according 10 the
best Partisan methods. Well. IL was
something of n shock TO discover hat
some chef d,oeuyre or Niece dc resist-
ance on a Belgian table was fashioned
from the good red meat of the nag hat
formerly hauled the diner from notel
10 theater. BUT II was i'm Brussels and
NOT Chicae 90. SO A went. IL was n re-
lief to knew that ~.pferdaeisch nit kar-
toffeln salat' was served i'm Dresden
and not by the lake side.
.Wha are the facts? Why. / am pre-
pared to say that | have partaken of
a haunch of burro which for juiclness.
tenderness and all round good taste
discounted the best roast of the best
steer that ever tossed a norn
or nawed the turf. Eat mule? Of
course. and found IL good. too. Now.
look as II / were cannibal. 70
what better use could I put a faith