When it was later proven that the reports about dog dishes were groundless, the Berlin Labor Bureau, which had made the charges, issued a formal apology to Chinese restaurants. Many attributed the ultimate cause of "the dog meat incident" to latent German racism. Still, many Westerners hold to the stereotype that the Chinese do eat dog meat for nourishment.
雖然事後證明狗肉菜是空穴來風，傳出謠言的柏林勞工局也正式對中餐館道歉，狗肉事件的導火線更被認為是潛伏德國人心中的種族主義；但是中國人以香肉進補，恐怕確是許多西方人的刻板印象。