When the health inspectors went to inspect the so-called "clean" facility, they found cages and cages of cats. Everybody wondered why they closed down, but then we finally heard the truth. Okay, at this chinese restaurant where I live, it's called moon palace, they suddenly closed down. The public health department immediately visited the restaurant to inspect the kitchens and in the fridge they found numerous tins of cat food, half an Alsatian dog and several rats all waiting to be served up. He therefore sent it off for analysis and the report came back saying that it was a rat bone. The surgeon who removed the bone was somewhat perplexed as he did not recognise the type of bone found. Thoroughly alarmed they rushed her to hospital and she had to undergo minor surgery to remove a small bone stuck in her throat. Half way through the meal one of the party suddenly started to cough and choke.
One evening several friends went out to a local Chinese restaurant for a celebratory meal. Then they found out that someone, maybe a competitor, maybe just a person who nursed a real or imagined grudge against Chinese, had initiated a rumor that the police had found three skinned cats, labeled rabbits, in the restaurant's refrigerator.Īncient slur or not, wherever this rumor goes it affects how the locals feel about the Chinese in their midst, and it often impacts a restaurant's fragile bottom line: The once-prosperous proprietors became miserably unhappy, for they could not understand what had happened to all their patrons. But without the slightest warning business suddenly took a drastic drop.
Everyone agreed that the food and service were good.
It was the most successful eating place around, patronized by businessmen and citizens morning, noon, and night. In a town of thirteen thousand inhabitants, which was gradually blossoming into cityhood, there was a restaurant operated by three Chinese. How ripe small towns actually are for rumors was amply demonstrated a few years ago. How old is old? The rumor about Fluffy's or Fido's being slipped into Chinese food by unscrupulous restaurateurs has been traced by British researchers to the earliest years of the British Empire in England and to the 1850s in the United States:
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