Hot dogs in Beijing? Food for thought. «

Serving dog in Beijing has now been suspended upon request of the Beijing Olympics Committee.

I can’t help but wonder … what has the world come to deny tourists the delicacy of dog? Besides fried rice, doesn’t every tourist want hot dogs in China?

As a matter of personal preference and weak stomach and ineptitutde at foreign languages, I simply bypass China in my travels. Great Wall aside, I imagine I’d fumble with my language book and - unbenowst to me - order a Big Dog instead of a Big Mac at the local Macca’s.

It’s a risk I can’t take.

You see, eating dog falls outside of my solomn oath to purchase meat neatly packaged on styrofoam trays and has been artistically arranged so any resemblance to the animal’s live form is gone. It’s then that I can eat meat, pretending that I’m eating oddly-textured Play Doh.

Now here is where I get all Charleton Heston in The Ten Commandments, wield a huge staff and try to speak in a booming voice to declare to the people…that a precedence has been set and IT WILL ONLY BE A MATTER OF TIME before the following delicious national morsels will be banned entirely.