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Termyn8or -> RE: Gotta draw the line... (7/30/2008 8:45:16 AM)
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Different people find different things suitable to eat. Used to go to this one restaurant, they served mussels. As I ate my steak, and watched people chow down on their mussels I couldn't help but think "Damn, you are pretty much eating barnacles".
Another place had kalamari on the menu. I know what not to order. A friend asks "What is kalamari ?" and I said it is squid. "No way". But when the waitress got there that's what she said. The menu was reopened for another look.
Gross, icky and eewww are in the eye of the beholder. The olman won't eat shrimp, something I like to have on occasion, but he eats kippers, which are just about the same as anchovies. Yuck, I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole.
Then of course I saw a documentary a long time ago showing some tribe in bumfuckt somewhere eating bugs, and they had to be cooked in corn husks to remove their microspines, like hair, which basically kills their predators by tearing up their insides. What brainiac figured that out ?
What I don't understand is how eel can be grosser than grasshopper. Of course I would probably prefer it deepfried if I had any inkling of wanting to eat it. Raw shrimp turns me off, even though alot of people like it that way. I don't know if I could bring myself to eat sushi.
And the irony of it is that some of the grossest things you could ever eat are probably the most healthy things in the world for you. Eels come from the ocean, so their bodies live literally bathed in salt water. And that is no regular table salt. The mineral content is probably fantastic. But it is gross.
I'm hoping I am not hijacking here, but the way we see food is shaped by what ? You might not want to eat a plateful of grasshoppers, but there is no problem with a chink of meat cut off of a cow, a chicken or many other animals. I know a guy, in his twenties, and I have known him almost all his life. He did well, turned out from college as an executive at a meat processing plant. But they made him work every job in the shop before giving him any real authority. I agree with that practice in business, but that's not the point, the point is it was so gross he almost became a vegetarian. If you've seen and smelled one of those places you might think twice about the porterhouse steak on your plate.
Different cultures see things differently. We about Orientals "You stick pieces of wood in your mouth ?" and they about us "You stick those metal things in your mouth ?".
What if we found that cockroaches are the best food ? There would be some brimming business in certain areas of this country. If people would buy them.
In China they took to eating cats, and now they have a problem with rats. The logical solution is to then eat the rats. But apparently they drew a line as well.
It's all relative. In certain parts of the country they eay things we call the Orkin Man for. I don't know what I would do if I lived there. Probably starve.
T
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