Parisian Meat.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XX, Issue 6298, 4 July 1895, Page 4

Parisian Meat.

The following paragraph appears in the London Daily Telegraph :-Parisians appear to be coins from bad to worse in the matter of meat. Ooly at the shops of the first-class batchers can prime sirloins, lees of mutton, straks. and chops be procured, the average quality heing deplorable. Cew-tavf ""d horseflesh have loin- figured lar_'.ly i>» the cheap establishments ; and now i cry of horror and disgust is beiuir raised, an several butchers have been caught red-handed in the act of selling cutlets and other portions of the dog. This apology f»r meat has been seized by the vetcrinaryinspectore of the metropolis, who are all the more convinced thai they are on the right track because of the fact that several large dogs well known in the neighborhood had disappeared, and that the heads of some of these animals Fiad been afterwards discovered stuffed into the mouths of drains. Some of the butchers are alleged to have said, by way of an excuse, that they were not versed in the mysteries of comparative anatomy, and that they bought without suspicion what was offered to them for sale. A veterinary surgeon has just declared that the flesh of the dog is not harmful so long as it is properly cooked, and also on the condition that the animal was not affected with rabies or tuberculosis. Those, however, who have unconsciously banqueted on canine meat, procured at the shops of the butchers who have just got into trouble, will hardly derive much consolation from this explanation. It is true that during the siege the flesh of the doir was not disdained/and even figured on the tables of good restaurants, but Parisians are by no means eager to repeat the experiment in these piping days of peace.