Plaschke digs China's version of the hot dog

If it was funny, we'd be laughing. If it was disguisting, we'd be laughing.
But the only real response after watching this video of the L.A. Times' Bill Plaschke and the Chicago Tribune's Kevin Pang visit a Beijing restaurant for the sole purpose to sample the vast selection of animal penis, we're not sure if this whole streaming video delivery system needs to be re-examined.
The Internet has now officially jumped the shark.
"I guess I like penis, it's very tasty," Plashke says after his meal.
At least they drew a line -- they won't eat a dog penis.
"It doesn't work for me," Plashke said after the ox and sheep penis experience.
Now, I'd like to see how they list this on their expense report, espeically after all the layoffs the paper has had to go through. Someone lost their job so Plaschke could sample an animal's wee-wee.
The video is linked here, from The Big Lead via Fire Joe Morgan.

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In a completely unrelated related story, we read in the LA84 Foundation's latest sportsletter that the World University Winter Games set for Harbin, China in Feb. 2009, have a mascot picked out.
His name is Dong Dong.
Says the newsletter:
Organizers are expecting a lot from the official mascot. Dong Dong "manifests strong local features of North China and gives prominence to the special characteristics of the host city and winter sporting events by personifying the basic element of the snowflake. As a carrier of Winter Universiade vision and the Olympic Spirit, the mascot, with an angelic smile and pure, innocent, lively and adorable image, will spread passion and joy, health and wisdom, luck and happiness, together with wonderful blessings, to the youth and peoples around the world ... The mascot inherits and carries forward the tradition, culture and humanism of the host city."
Bill, meet Dong Dong.
Dong Dong, meet Bill.
Bill, put down that fork.