Somehow I doubt it as well, although they have been known to throw the occasional Mr Ed on the pulla! Haitians, yup cat, dog, rats, pigeons no sweat and not even out of desperation. Heck, they’d hack up and eat a cadaver if they found one on the way home from the construction site I’m told!
You have my admiration EHM. You’re not only brave enough to go down the cat eating myth rabbit hole, you come out the other end with the logic of the Mad Hatter. Your last line is tongue in cheek but insightful. We are not averse to dining on our own kind if the situation is dire enough. Remember the soccer team that crashed in the mountains and the survivors ended up consuming human flesh? Proof that anything is possible for our dietary needs.
I’ve never had the need or desire to eat felines. Big or small. I’ve been adventurous with wild game, having tasted moose, caribou, bear, beaver(no pun or double entendre intended), duck, goose, deer, partridge, seal, rabbit, etc. Tried goat at my friend’s house in Luperon. Not one of my favourite domesticated meats.
In defence of Haitian cultural norms, you can’t take starved poor desperate people from a country ravaged by civil war and place them in the middle of a totally different cultural environment and expect them to assimilate immediately. As much as the US tries to be a Cultural melting pot, it is really a mosaic. Lines are drawn and never crossed. People are born and raised in the bowels of the large cities and never learn to speak English or adapt to US cultural norms.
I‘m not surprised by what’s happening to the legal and illegals Haitians in the US nor am I surprised by disgruntled local citizens with overactive imaginations and an immigration axe to grind, creating social media myths.
I have to cut this post short. I swear I just saw a UFO hovering over the lake next to my house. Gotta run! I’m extremely averse to anal probing. If I don’t post anything over the next two
weeks, expect the worst.
