Bosintang: I get it!

A lot of people think eating dog is weird, if not downright disgusting. I tried some dog meat a while back just for the hell of it. It's just the butchered and cooked meat of another animal, right?

I only had a couple bites and thought it was kind of weird tasting, but my slight aversion might have been more psychological than flavor-related. Paul and Eric sure didn't like it though. Paul was the one who kept demanding we travel to the farthest side of town to find a dog restaurant for weeks on end. He was in a frenzy that could only be satisfied with dog meat, and after he saw a heaping plate of cooked flesh he was a different man. "All I could think of was all the dogs in my life who were nice to me," he said. They both nearly puked with the thought.

Anyway, I get it now! After listening to the infernal little creatures mindlessly barking at all hours of the day, I realized that coming up with this dish was just an excuse to kill annoying dogs! Think about it: the senseless barking keeps you up when you want to sleep at night, and wakes you up early when you want to sleep. Dealing with this long enough will surely drive a man to murder his neighbor's pet, and way back when, when Korea was a poor country without much food, making a soup out of the dog was a perfect cover story!

It's much easier to save face by saying that your family was hungry and you had to kill your neighbors dog than by saying that the pocket-sized runt was driving you into a murderous frenzy. And even then, if someone questioned you further, you throw in the baseless claim that it helps with virility and stamina.