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On 21 December 2016, several questionable articles appeared, all of which reported that a China Chow restaurant in Coral Springs, Florida was shut down by authorities after it was discovered the restaurant was serving dog meat: The claim was yet another version of an age-old urban legend holding that Chinese restaurants regularly serve foods that are unpalatable or taboo to Westerners, rumors that have been in circulation for more than a century. As repeatedly noted in deconstructions of this perennial myth, it serves as a socially acceptable manner by which to voice doubt about the trustworthiness of unfamiliar or exotic cultures: Another common element of urban legends about the wealthy is their appetite for immoral, decadent, or horrifying pursuits (presumably having exhausted entertainment avenues open to the masses). The claim touched on that idea with the suggestion that VIPs primarily sought out a menu of housepets in their Chinese food ordering habits. One indicator that the story was not credible was that its image was published to the web as early as 2013, and was not associated with a December 2016 incident involving China Chow in Coral Springs. A larger second clue came from a since-deleted Facebook post published by the official Coral Springs Police page: As Coral Springs Police noted, several elements of the story proved questionable, and the local law enforcement agency itself labeled the claim fake news and not an ongoing investigation. No credible outlet reported the claim, and its status as a very old urban legend further indicated it was no more than a tired hoax.
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