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"Eat the Dog" can refer to one of the following:
- Asians Eat Pets: The stereotype that East Asian people eat meat from cats and dogs.
- Emergency Food Supply Animal: An animal eaten as emergency rations if food becomes scarce without being intended as a food source. Previously called "Eat the Dog".
- Foreign Queasine: National dishes that don't look/taste so great from outside their home country.
- I'm a Humanitarian: A character who likes to eat people.
- If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: A test to see if a character who claims to be evil really is evil.
- Kick the Dog: A character does something evil, cruel or very mean for no apparent gain, because the author wants to demonstrate that they are not a nice person and shift the audience's sympathy away from them.
- No Party Like a Donner Party: Resorting to cannibalism out of desperation.
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