LOL - Panda Garden Restaurant in Edmonton

[Sun Baked]

Canine carcasses found in restaurant freezer

Canadian Press
Nov. 6, 2003 07:00 AM

EDMONTON, Canada - Health officials are investigating a local restaurant owner after four skinned canine carcasses were found in his freezer.

Edmonton Humane Society constables and environmental health officers removed the carcasses from the Panda Garden restaurant in a north-end strip mall Tuesday. They had been tipped off by strip mall security guards.

The restaurant was closed Wednesday and an eviction notice was posted on the front door.

more... (http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/1106DogCarcasses06-ON.html)

[bousozoku]

How dare they serve dog meat instead of Panda meat, as advertised in the restuarant name. :D

[solvs]

One of the many reasons I don't eat meat. :ewwww:

[ColoJohnBoy]

Hehe. Panda.

My father and his co-workers once conducted a bit of an informal survey after they noticed the peculiarity of the close proximity of many Chinese restaurants to animal hospitals and pet stores. They went around the Denver area and found 17, count em, 17 Chinese restaurants right next to or across the street from animal hospitals or pet stores.

Food for thought.

Food for vomit.

[Sun Baked]

C'mon there's nothing wrong with serving the meat in Edmonton.

How dare that guy not get that doggie in the window inspected by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. :eek:...There are no laws preventing restaurants from serving up coyote or dog meat, but it is illegal to import, to export and to transport it across provincial barriers, said Sue Robertson of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

Provincial law, however, states that inspectors have to clear all meat being prepared for sale... No wonder some of those cooking shows were saying that they got the BEST Chinese food ever in Canada. http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?postid=227657

[avus]

Originally posted by ColoJohnBoy
Hehe. Panda.

My father and his co-workers once conducted a bit of an informal survey after they noticed the peculiarity of the close proximity of many Chinese restaurants to animal hospitals and pet stores. They went around the Denver area and found 17, count em, 17 Chinese restaurants right next to or across the street from animal hospitals or pet stores.

Food for thought.

Food for vomit.

How many Chinese restreants are there in Denver area? Must be in hundreds, and 17 seems to be such a low number to insinuate anything - my nearest KFC is right across an animal hospital, for a heaven's sake!

Just because you don't eat a certain food group doesn't give you any right to spread a very prejudicial data. I find it highly amusing that this highly bigoted news is posted at "Mac"Rumors Forum when Apple is reportedly making a deal with McDonald's. There is no Hindu in North Ameria running around and spreading bigotry about people eating beef, you know.

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by avus
How many Chinese restreants are there in Denver area? Must be in hundreds, and 17 seems to be such a low number to insinuate anything - my nearest KFC is right across an animal hospital, for a heaven's sake!

Just because you don't eat a certain food group doesn't give you any right to spread a very prejudicial data. I find it highly amusing that this highly bigoted news is posted at "Mac"Rumors Forum when Apple is reportedly making a deal with McDonald's. There is no Hindu in North Ameria running around and spreading bigotry about people eating beef, you know.

Are you replying in anger because you own a Chinese restaurant? The truth isn't bigoted. I don't think the problem is that they're serving dog. It's that they're serving dog as something else. Chinese restaurants in Philly's Chinatown tried this years ago and got caught for serving cat.

[Tim Flynn]

Now where will I go ?

That apparently not the only restaurant of the owners :eek:

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by Tim Flynn
Now where will I go ?

That apparently not the only restaurant of the owners :eek:

Sorry to hear that you went there. Perhaps, you were there prior to their cost-cutting ways.

I always eat Shrimp/Prawns at Chinese restaurants since they're hard to fake. :D The price may be higher, but I know what I'm getting.

[rueyeet]

Originally posted by bousozoku
I don't think the problem is that they're serving dog. It's that they're serving dog as something else.

Exactly. Okay, maybe it's just me, and I'm not at all Asian, but why not eat dog or cat? It's meat, right? I'd understand if the problem were that domestic animals have a higher incidence of disease or other contaminants, especially if the animal was obtained after death at a pet hospital--but to not eat it for the sole reason that it's an animal some people keep as pets seems silly to me.

*puts on flame-retardant suit*

[Sun Baked]

Originally posted by rueyeet
I'd understand if the problem were that domestic animals have a higher incidence of disease or other contaminants, especially if the animal was obtained after death at a pet hospital--but to not eat it for the sole reason that it's an animal some people keep as pets seems silly to me. Family pets that died at an animal hospital probably would have a higher chance of dying from disease and/or still having their body full of toxic chemicals after long illness (especially any chemo).

Right now there's a couple sections of the Valley where pets have been vanishing, and this time it isn't link to a neighbor trapping them.

Certainly wouldn't want any of those families to find out their night on the town may have included eating the family pet.

Of course this ring here in town may be related to the resale of expensive pets (since those are the animals vanishing).

[latergator116]

Isnt Panda an endangered animal?