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N. Korea, Rabbit Meat Popular, Becoming 'Another Sweet Meat'
Yonhap News (via Chosun Ilbo) ^ | 01/20/08

Posted on 01/20/2008 6:38:29 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

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N. Korea, Rabbit Meat Popular, Becoming 'Another Sweet Meat'

Yonhap News

"Rabbit meat, unlike sweet meat(translator's note:sweet meat = dog meat), causes no heartburn afterwards, great for your health."

Restaurant districts in Pyongyang are featuring rabbit dishes, and attracting customers, advertising it as 'another sweet meat,' spurred by the recent official drive to raise rabbits for food.

Chosun Shinbo, the official newspaper of General Association of Koreans in Japan(pro-North front organization,) reported on Jan. 20, "Among Pyongyang's restaurants, there are quite a few service units which provide various rabbit dishes. These days rabbit stew is as popular as sweet meat stew."

According to the paper, when famine hit during mid 1990's in N. Korea, following the Worker's Party directive "Turn grass into meat," the authorities started to encourage people to raise rabbits to produce meat by feeding grass. Factories, enterprises, schools, military units, and even households have been raising rabbits.

As many people are raising rabbits, Pyongyang city authorities drew up the plan to open restaurants specializing in rabbit meat in each of its district or county since last year. They designated a restaurant complex at Botonggang District as a showcase, after which rabbit meat restaurants began to increase in numbers.

Especially Mundok St. Restaurant at Daesung District is quite popular among customers for its delicious rabbit dishes.

Its best dish is a rabbit stew. To make it, they marinate 2.5 inch slice of rabbit meat, fry it with oil and boil it with gingko, chestnut, and (Chinese) date. People love it, calling it "rabbit health stew."

Kim Hyang-won(age:43), the restaurant's manager, explained, "My restaurant was originally famous for stew dishes such as sweet meat stew with rice, but recently customers like rabbit health stew better than sweet meat dishes."

Park Jin-gook(age:58), its customer, said, "They say you could get sick by having sweet meat stew in the middle of winter, if you are not healthy enough, but with rabbit stew, there is no such problem. It tastes so good that I might have it even in summer(translator's note: summer is the peak season of sweet meat stew.)"

posted: 2008.01.20 10:16

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dog; food; hunger; korea; rabbit
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To: TigerLikesRooster
They can try squirrels.

Squirrel is even leaner, I think, but tastes about the same. But tree rat is kind of tough.

21 posted on 01/20/2008 7:18:50 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: truemiester
can you say #7 shot?

I generally used #6, sometimes #5. If the primary target was quail, with rabbit a possible "target of opportunity", I'd use #7 1/2.

22 posted on 01/20/2008 7:21:50 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

I always used a .22. One shot in the head usually.Occasaionally, a whole bunch all up and down the tree.


23 posted on 01/20/2008 7:47:48 AM PST by weezel
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To: El Gato
.22s, preferably CB caps, on squirrels.
24 posted on 01/20/2008 7:50:44 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; glock rocks; SouthTexas
Oh Dear... I remember my sister and I each had a rabbit as pets during WWII. We come home from school one day and Mama said the rabbits had escaped their cages and were gone. Mama had meat on the table when Dad got home and my sister and I looked at each other and broke out crying and went to bed hungry for three nights...
25 posted on 01/20/2008 7:59:30 AM PST by tubebender
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To: Manic_Episode
>>”Cok! Bling me my hossenfeffel!”<<

Vely funny. Hal, Hal, Hal!

26 posted on 01/20/2008 8:01:57 AM PST by shove_it (and have a nice day)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I hope they like it with tree bark......


27 posted on 01/20/2008 8:03:16 AM PST by Kozak (Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; monkapotamus; AmericanInTokyo; Jet Jaguar; All

OH MAN that big rabbit is that for Chia pet?


28 posted on 01/20/2008 8:44:11 AM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Thanks for the ping.


29 posted on 01/20/2008 8:58:54 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1886546/posts?page=4972#4972 45 Item Communist Manifesto)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
North Koreans are also known to eat tree bark and boiled grass. They'll pretty much consume anything that will fill their bellies for a little while.

Ain't Communism wonderful?

30 posted on 01/20/2008 9:15:28 AM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: tubebender
You sound like wife. I don't think I'll get bacon for a week now!

Grand champion rabbits went for $10,000!

31 posted on 01/20/2008 9:21:32 AM PST by SouthTexas
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To: TigerLikesRooster
While in Bavaria 50 years ago, these monster sized rabbits or hares would scare the bejeepers out of us when they jumped out of tall grass during war games; the deer always looked tiny.
32 posted on 01/20/2008 9:27:48 AM PST by UnklGene
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To: SevenofNine; TigerLikesRooster; AnnaZ
"OH MAN that big rabbit is that for Chia pet?"


33 posted on 01/20/2008 12:08:00 PM PST by monkapotamus
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To: COBOL2Java
“What’s cooking doc”
“Rabbit Stew”
“I love Rabbit Stew”
34 posted on 01/20/2008 12:40:37 PM PST by Defendingliberty (www.gulagthebear.com, www.DraconEarthsavers.org)
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To: monkapotamus

BOY that could serve Chia Pet right there HEYYY MONK I knew you were around honey LOL!


35 posted on 01/20/2008 1:39:30 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: Pablo64

Bump off a woodchuck or two. They are just big rabbits, after all. HEY!!! Maybe we could make a buck by importing hoary rodents into NK.


36 posted on 01/20/2008 3:29:36 PM PST by Safetgiver (By the way, that means defecating on the local convenience store.)
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To: Safetgiver

Not sure I want to start eating rodents (woodchucks) quite yet, but I never try to rule out anything where food is concerned. If it’s clean and cooked properly, and tastes good, then, hey, let’s eat!


37 posted on 01/20/2008 3:46:02 PM PST by Pablo64 (What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

There is a rabbit in my yard that jumps around everywhere nibbling the shrubs and leaving huge amounts of droppings. The tracks cover at least a couple hundred feet in each direction. Finally saw the little fellow, he’s mostly white and about the size of a furry softball. All that activity and he would hardly make a sandwich if I caught him.


38 posted on 01/20/2008 3:51:55 PM PST by RightWhale ("... which is not a linnnit' 'I'ht first published svstenn of predicate logic was devised 1ยป' the ()
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Back during WW II, when I was in high school and Dad was in the Navy, we raised rabbits. Had a couple of hundred of them at the peak. It was my job to feed and water them, clean out the hutches, and butcher then when that was needed.

They're very efficient animals. Almost half the food that they eat ends up as meat (chickens do a bit better than that).

As for making pets of them, I made that mistake with one rabbit. It broke my heart to butcher her, and I could't eat her. With all the rest, though, they were just meat on the hoof. I had no problem either butchering or eating them.

Before I would butcher one, I'd sharpen my knife. The cats learned that when they heard a knife being sharpened, they were in for treats: liver, kidneys, heart. I removed the gall bladder from the liver before throwing it to the cats.

39 posted on 01/20/2008 6:38:00 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (My book is out. Read excerpts at http://www.thejusticecooperative.com)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
22s, preferably CB caps, on squirrels.

If you hunting just squirrels or rabbits, sure. I've done that. But your primary quarry can fly then a shotgun is necessity. Although I've found that you don't hit a squirrel with very many pellets anyway, since the little furry devils tend to just peak over the branch, once they know you are about.

40 posted on 01/20/2008 10:55:22 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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