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The St Bernard is one of the largest dog breeds, originally bred for rescue work and as a working dog. It is an icon of the Swiss, and is reknown worldwide. Sounds all cute and fluffy right?

We went to dinner with a group of lawyers (lawyers? yes it’s a long story), and were in the middle of eating shabu-shabu, lovely thinly sliced meat etc. Imagine our horror when we were told that St Bernard used to be on the menu. Of the dog farms in China that ‘used’ (so i hope) breed St Bernards for consumption, because they are large and have lots of, well, meat on them. Like….sooooo not cool. This has apparently been stopped after the Swiss government complained. Apparently they didn’t appreciate one of their national icons being on the menu.

Which makes you think about Australia. We have seriously got to be one of the ONLY nations that actively eats its national icons. Put up your hand if you’ve eaten Kangaroo or Emu. Now look at the Australian Emblem. Ahuh. Now I’m glad to say that I haven’t eaten skippy, but seriously, makes you wonder. Another funny thing that I heard is that apparently we picked the emu and kangaroo, not only because they are of similar height and provide balance on the emblem, but because they can only go in one direction. hahaha, means we’re a stubborn lot.

Fun times