Dog Wars Escalate: Barack Obama Ate Dog Meat

There are a lot of unusual foods to the American palate in South East Asia, but still tasty.



Say, do you know where the term "Hot Dog" originated? At the St Louis Worlds Fair in 1904 wieners were introduced to the American public at large. At the same Worlds Fair French's Mustard was introduced. At the St Louis World's Fair of 1904 the United States also introduced Americans to people from their new spoil from the Spanish American War, the Philippines. Now, instead of introducing some of the highly educated Filipinos from Manila, many educated in Europe, the US Government decided to portray Filipinos as primitive, and set up an exhibit of Ifugao, from the mountainous region of northern Luzon. Part of the Ifugao diet consisted of native dog. Americans watching Ifugao eating dog at the fair became a big attraction. Visitors to the fair would steal dogs from the surrounding area to offer the Ifugao.



Visitors were also suspect of the meat that was in the wieners, and started calling them "Hot Dogs" conflating the new food with the diet of the Ifugao in the exhibit.
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