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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:26 PM
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Poll question: What would you do if you were sitting in a restaurant
and heard the sound of a SCREECHING CAT coming from the kitchen?

:scared:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:27 PM
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1. Ah, in NYC, happens all the time.
Well, maybe not literally - but I've been to a lot of restaurants that have had cats in them.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:30 PM
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2. Live cats
or uh... non-living cats???

:scared:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:31 PM
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3. Live cats
At least, you know, for a while.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:35 PM
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4. If I saw any cat in a restaurant
it would be over for me.

I don't like eating knowing that MY cat has been near my food. :(
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:41 PM
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5. Well,
my immediate thought would be that someone stepped (accidently) on its tail. As to what the cat was doing in the restaurant, perhaps getting rid of the mice?
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:44 PM
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7. I don't think the health department
is Okay with any part of that. :scared:
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:43 PM
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6. ...
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:50 PM
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8. Cat's In The Kettle
(Parody of Cats In The Cradle by Harry Chapin)


Did you ever think when you eat Chinese?
It ain’t pork or chicken but a fat Siamese
Yet the food tastes great so you don’t complain
But that’s not chicken in you chicken chow mien
Seems to me I ordered sweet ‘n sour pork
But Garfield’s on my fork
He’s purring here on my fork

There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
The place that I eat everyday at noon
They could feed you cat and you’ll never know
Once they wrap it up in dough, boys
They fry it real crisp in dough

Chow Lin asked if I wanted more
As he was dialing up his buddy at the old pet store
I said, “Not today I lost my appetite.
There’s two cats in my belly and they want to fight.”
I was suckin’ on a Rolaid and a Tums or two
When I swear I heard it meow
And that is when I knew

There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
Think I gotta stop eatin’ there at noon
They say that it’s beef or fish or pork
But it’s purring there on my fork
There’s a hairball on my fork

http://www.bobrivers.com/audiovault/tunes/tunes.asp?Var=C
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:55 PM
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11. It wasn't an asian place
n/t
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:50 PM
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9. three . . . two . . . one
:popcorn:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 10:10 PM
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14. wasn't a
pizza place either :D
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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:53 PM
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10. Ask to see the feet of the animal you ate
OTOH, can you trust the restaurant to bring you the same feet?

Having smelled cat and dog muscle (not in a restaurant setting), it has a distinctive smell, and would conclude definitely could not taste like chicken.

Kestrel (the vet), wouldn't you agree???
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:57 PM
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12. Hey, *I* don't eat critters.
The spinach dish I had was delicious. :D
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abandoned Donating Member (26 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:59 PM
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13. Happened to me.
I was in Korea and shortly after having ordered you could hear cat "screams" (not a gentle meow) coming for the kitchen.

Didn't stop me from eating.

So did this happen to you?
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 10:13 PM
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15. That's pretty bad...
this was just a single "rowr" coming from the kitchen, and my mom and I looked at each other like *wtf* but we stayed and ate anyway.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 10:15 PM
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16. I would be ordering tamales.
;)
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 11:56 PM
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18. Why's that?
No tamales con gato for you??
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bhuddaboy Donating Member (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 10:26 PM
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17. I've Got One Better
About twenty years ago I was eating in a restaurant in Hawaii when a cat came darting out of the kitchen. What made it memorable was seeing it followed by a panicked cook who was chasing it down with a meat cleaver in one hand.

Our waitress later apologized for the cat that had strayed in through the back door and the panic in the kitchen that had ensued after the feline ventured into the dining area. Sometimes things we see are not what they appear to be at first glance. But it was one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed.
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-23-05 12:31 AM
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19. may taste like chicken but looks like rabbit
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-23-05 11:56 AM
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21. Rabbit looks like chicken
except for the legs. :scared:
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-23-05 12:52 AM
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20. One of my fave restaurants in Venice Italy has 2 cats that run the place.
They come and ask for pets and snacks while you're eating. They're VERY sweet and pretty... They come and go from the kitchen, and whenever they give a meow, someone opens the door for them.

My neighbors downstairs have their dog in their restaurant all the time... His name is Othello, a big garumphy tail wagging golden retriever. He's so sweet and doesn't beg, but is the official greeter of all who enter and passers-by.

I have no problem with pets in restaurants... although the screaming might mean he sampled the soup.
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