Re: Korean Food Translation
Originally posted by Hello6
bo-shin tang = [literally] protect-body tonic/soup (made of dog meat) {traditionally eaten in June to beat the heat}
sa-cheol tang = [literally] four-season tonic/soup (made of dog meat) {probably the name was invented to increase sales in other seasons besides Summer}
interesting read:
Dog Meat: Cultural Bias & Food Choices
I received the following email from a Korean student, and published it along with my response in the weekly newsletter. Below my response are two contrasting emails I received from subscribers.
I felt that all of this might be of interest to others.
QUESTION: Hello, I'm a student that I love my country, korea. So I have a question about our culture. Getting to the point, it's our dogmeat culture that is being issued these days.
Dogs are specially bred to be eaten in South Korea, notably in poshintang, literally 'body preservation stew,' which advocates say is good for your health and is considered a delicacy by some.
What causes particular alarm abroad and among animal rights activists in South Korea is the illegal way some dogs are killed to make the meat more tender -- by beating, burning or hanging. Seoul has also vowed to stamp out those practices.
In my opinion , however, Eating dog meat is a Korean custom, and doing so is our choice to make. The fact that our culture is unlike those of other countries does not make it wrong or inferior, that I thought. And what do you think of it? Please answer me logically, in detail. so I appreciate you.
ANSWER: I am in total agreement with you. Eating dogs is neither wrong nor inferior.
There is no difference with raising dogs, cows, kangaroos, cats, camels, rats, horses, or any other animal for food purposes.
Different cultures have different animals they have traditionally raised for food.
Misunderstanding arises because most cultures have settled on cattle, pigs, and sheep as their primary source of meat. Add to this the fact that most cultures view the dog as a 'pet', and many people take the totally incorrect view that eating dog meat is wrong.
Most western cultures also take the same view today about eating horse meat, although not that long ago, this was considered acceptable.
There are cultures that draw and drink blood from their horses as a primary nutrition source. This is also different, but not wrong or inferior.
People who view the raising and eating of animals such as dogs, horses, camels, cats, rats, kangaroos, etc. as wrong, are reacting emotionally from their own cultural bias.
Unfortunately, because of the status of dogs as household pets in many cultures, most people in these cultures will continue to view the practice as wrong.
I personally would not like to see the practice discontinued, because this would diminish the cultural diversity in the world. And when this happens, we all lose.
(I vehemently condemn all inhumane treatment of any animal being raised for food - such as the practice of beating, burning or hanging the animals - whether they are dogs, cows or any other animal. Some of the practices of the veal (and poultry) industry in the United States are also inhumane, and I condemn them also.)
Chef James
http://www.foodreference.com/html/artdogmeat.html
Got gummed did ya! 
I'll start by eating my words. I'll like a nice leg steak. Really how much meat could you get off a person? What's edible compared to like beef or pork? I mean I guess you could eat just about everything but the bone but like to make a steak or something? The legs and the butt would be about the only place to get a decent piece of meat. It's the muscle you'd eat right? That's what we eat on cows isn't it? The muscle? Would we have rib meat like other animals? I don't think people would be very good for eating. 