[Promotum] Jogging Cow

[Edmund A. Hintz]

Out of the bizarre files, we bring you the following oddity from Reuters UK:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/
20030911/od_uk_nm/oukoe_cambodia_dogs

>PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodians are being urged to eat more dogs as
>part of a crackdown on stray mutts wandering around the capital of the
>southeast Asian nation. 
>
>Although dogs, along with creepy-crawlies such as spiders, beetles and
>crickets, are found regularly on menus in deeply impoverished rural
>areas, eating them is frowned upon in the relative sophistication of
>Phnom Penh. 
>
>...
>
>Hitherto, Phnom Penh dog lovers have had to keep their tastes under wraps
>by asking for 'special' or 'jogging cow' meat in restaurants. 



Regards,

Ed Hintz
ed@hintz.org