with herbs in iron…
Long Liyuan, 49, died on Dec. 23 in wealthy Guangdong province after sharing a dish of slow boiled cat meat stew, a southern delicacy, with two men over a business lunch.
…Huang, deputy director of agriculture in Guangdong’s Bajia township, is suspected of poisoning the hotpot with the herb Gelsemium elegans, according to a statement on the microblog of the investigating police. The poisonous plant is found in forests in parts of China.
All three men were sickened, but Long died because he consumed more of the herb, the statement said.
…Long and Huang had met for lunch to discuss a business contract. Long, who ran a forestry company in Guangdong, wanted to lease a piece of woodland and develop it, the Nanfang Daily, the mouthpiece of the Guangdong Communist Party, reported Tuesday.
…Police initially detained the restaurant’s owner on suspicion of serving unsanitary food. But the businessman’s family refused to believe it was a simple case of food poisoning, pressed the police to investigate further and offered a reward of 100,000 yuan ($16,000) for information about his death.
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What kind of neanderthals eat boiled cat?
Everyone knows the only way to prepare them is fried.
^ The kids and I call that anonymous-white-meat-on skewers at the Chinese buffet “kitty on a stick.”
Embarrasses the hell out of the missus.
Eating kittahs for 30,000 years caused slanty eyes & cat cunning……(…ever notice that oriental languages sometimes sound like, “meow, meow, meow, meow?”) Plus, why do American restaurants almost never have glass cages of kitties & puppies?….)
There’s a ‘cat got his tongue’ joke here, but I’m not going to make it.
Poisoning your enemies is so 10th century.
I’m surprised he didn’t just tell the Chinese Onstar folks to turn off the brakes in the guy’s car. (GM sells more cars in China than in the U.S.)
The idea is not to poison everybody – especially yourself. FAIL.
OT question: anybody know anything about cats going wild over (apparently) the smell of saddle soaped leather? Or is this fuzzy lizard just weird?
Charlie Chan say,
“Poison not in food. Poison already inside chopstick brought by murderer and cleverly traded for victim’s. Poison not immediate, so tainted chopstick dipped into dishes used by rest of party, so they sick, too, but not die.
Poison one used two-centuries ago in Qing Dynasty by Emperor Jiaqing. Head assassin grow tree in poison soil, so poison chopsticks, toothpicks, and back scratchers not traceable to emperor.
Number-One Son, go to Long forestry company. Look for log used to make deadly chopstick. Long only forest old enough to have Jiaqing-poisoned tree.
Ah! I see doubt in face of police lieutenant.
Look up on Google.”
mojo, I think that’s a question for Mr. Colonel Jerry, SIR!!! who has a crazy cat and had horses at one time or for Claire who has horses. But I dunno if she has a cat tho……..
FWIW, *I* kinda think the smell of saddle soaped leather is kinda hot :)
mojo, there may be something to this cat/leather thing.
Former GF’s cats couldn’t stand me, but snuggled right up to my flight jacket or my buffalo-hide boots.
Mojo,
When I had a small horse ranch I also had a cat named Clarissa. Clarissa went bugfuck over the saddle pads, especially when I had just removed them after a ride. Natch, the pads were warm & sweaty. I think it is in the nature of cats to always try and “mask” or hide their own scent. For their also natural instincts at hunting prey to eat….. I never noticed saddle soaped saddle – rubbing, but I imagine the motive is the same as my smart fucking cat and the pads……….
Fi,
ColJ
mojo,
I just took two pieces of old tack, saddle-soaped one of ‘em, then put ‘em out for the cats to check out.
Nuthin’. The saddle soap, itself, doesn’t seem to do anything.
Reckon ColJ’s right.
Prob’ly needs horse sweat or crotch sweat, too, if there’s anything to it.
Might be sweat, I suppose. The leather in question is a pair of boots.
Some cats just don’t try hard enough.
Well, hey, I was headed back home, traveling north from Portland today and noticed a sign on the side of a building: “$1 Chinese Food!”. Couldn’t help but wonder how many customers they’d pull in with that ad. How much is cat meat per pound?