[Cronos]

I think nearly all cultures ate dogs as a last option. Some of the Koreans/Chinese/Vietnamese eat dogs as according to chinese medicine it has some medicinal properties

[fidelis]

"I think nearly all cultures ate dogs as a last option."

Right you are. No culture or people has a corner on feasting on Fido:

Europeans Survived on a diet of dogs and badgers 3000 years ago

[ApplegateRanch]

Anything you can swallow, keep down, and not die, has “Chinese traditional medicinal value”, it seems.