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Asocena
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Dog meat.
Philippines
Dog meat consumption was formerly widespread, particularly in the northern Philippines where dog meat stew, in general, acquired the euphemistic name "azucena"(or "asocena") in the 1980s. It originates from a play-on-words on the Spanish term azucena, "lily", and its resemblance to a portmanteau "asocena", from aso ("dog") + cena, ("dinner"/"meal"). They were commonly eaten as pulutan (appetizers eaten with alcohol) by men, mainly due to the superstition that dog meat "warms the body" and functions as an aphrodisiac. At the height of the dog meat trade prior to the 1990s, an estimated 500,000 dogs were killed every year.