This is why the Chinese will out-survive us all!

"Theres nine hundred million of them in the world
today, you'd better learn to like them thats what i
say"
"they eat everything with four legs except for the
> table.  The markets were
> full of every animal imaginable."

Ha! this is why they are so many of them even early-on
in ancient history!

"If Darwin is anything to shout about, the Chinese
will survive us all without a doubt"
----from the song "i like Chinese" by Eric Idle(monty
Python)

Phil

--- John Andrew <johna@TELLURIDECOLORADO.NET> wrote:
> We went to China a few years back.  While in Canton,
> they had a saying that
> they eat everything with four legs except for the
> table.  The markets were
> full of every animal imaginable.
> John Andrew 1984 "Westiico"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Cotsford <Cotsford@AOL.COM>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Date: Sunday, April 14, 2002 7:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Chinese restaurants ....no Vanagon
> content
>
>
> >I used to think it was a joke when people talked
> about chinese eating cats,
> >the very creatures some of us love to have as pets.
> >
> >That was before I went to China !!
> >
> >Last time I was in Beijing, I went down some back
> roads behind the Holiday
> >Inn I was staying in and found small restaurants
> with cats in cages outside
> >the door.
> >If they were there to catch mice, they wouldnt be
> kept in cages.
> >
> >I also wondered why they had a watchman sleeping in
> our big railway machine
> I
> >was commissioning.    I was stupid enough to ask
> why they didnt just have a
> >dog.
> >The chinese just laughed and said the people would
> just steal the
> dog....for
> >supper.
> >
> >I ate all kinds of things that I didnt recognise
> but whenever possible I
> >would eat in a western restaurant.......very scarce
> outside the big cities.
> >   In the town I spent weeks in, the best
> restaurant had a
> >specialty.....donkey meat.
> >
> >Ah yes,   time to feed the cat.
> >later,
> >Steve Cotsford

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