Fido For Supper

1) What does the title imply?

- It implies that Fido is a dog, and that it is going to be the dinner.

2) Thesis/ Conclusion?

-The thesis implies that the writer, Steven Rinella is in Vietnam and he is taking back a few drinks to get a little drunk so he can have enough courage that night to eat the traditional plate of the Lunar New Year, eating dog.

- The Conclusion implies that even though he tried eating dog the first time and didn't like it, didn't mean he shouldn't try it anymore. Rinella explains that he made a big mistake the first night that he ate the dog for the first time, he says that he didn't understand why they were eating the dog, so he tries it again and he says that " if your culture and your culinary curiosities go head to head, culture's going to win/ It'll win even if you're rooting against it." He fulfilled his want to try to eat dog, and he realized that it was something that he couldn't do.

3) List all the elements of this piece that make it effective.

- Why eating dog is good in the Vietnamese culture
- The history of why he has an attachment and curiosity to find out what a dog tastes like
- What actually happened when he ate the dog, and how he felt about it afterwards
- The writer explains that he has always had a curiosity to try different kinds of foods, and has tried anything that he can legally buy
- describing the scenery around him, and people surrounding him
- Not giving up the first time he tried the dog, he tried it again and still didn't like it
- Explaining that sometimes culture's don't mix no matter how much you want them to.

I think that the writer Steven Rinella was really brave for at least trying something that he always had a curiosity to try. Although it wouldn't be something that I would ever like to try, it was good to read someone else's experience with something.

Weird Foods
This website has any kind of weird food that someone can think of, it tells someone how it is cooked and what it tastes like and everything.

- In my opinon I think it was a good idea to come up with a website like that because some people are curious but never brave enough to try something different, and maybe reading about the food it will either help them overcome the fear of eating whatever the food may be. It might even help them realize that they never want to think about trying that food.