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I find the practice of eating dogs repulsive to my western sensibilities. But then again some people think eating cows is repulsive or that eating pigs (and pigs are said by some to be as intelligent as dogs) is repulsive, or horses, although I understand that horse meat if properly prepared can be quite delicious. Bambi in the movie of the same name was adorable, but that hasn’t stopped me from eating venison. Little baby lambs are way cute and adorable too, but I love a good roasted leg of lamb. Some people keep pigs and chickens as pets and even use them as “emotional support” animals, but I’m not about to stop eating bacon or roasted chicken.

I also recall a thread a while back about how the Greeks catch and prepare octopuses, something about slamming them into rocks while still alive to make them more tender to eat. And then even more recently a thread about how cooking lobsters by plunging them in boiling water was inhumane and that you should humanely killed them first by plunging a knife into their brain first, never mind that they still end up on a dinner plate and served with butter.

While I love them, I’d still like to know who the first person who decided to eat raw oysters was thinking. Was it out of desperation and extreme hunger and or the lack of fire making skills or just a why not, I’ll give a try it moment?

The Aztecs ate chihuahua. The meat-to-bone ratio must have been appalling, but protein is protein.

Lobsters? They are part of the insect family.

Raw oysters? I'm guessing somebody observed dogs, sea mammals, or birds feasting on them, and decided "why the heck not?"

Although, a woman down in Louisiana ended up with a fatal case of vibrio last year from eating raw oysters.