Re: weird foods

Glenn Morton wrote:

"I guess some of these weird foods come about because of a sense of macho, which says something about our daring-do as a species"

You may be right, but with the Chinese I've assumed many items on the menu originated out of desperation: If you're starving, you'll eat anything. As you know, they eat almost anything and everything. Some of those anythings with a little soy sauce or sesame oil tasted pretty good, so they stayed on the menu even in good times. This is my hypothesis. One piece of possibly supporting evidence: duck eggs buried and aged in soil. (Tried 'em yet?)

Or are they just adventurous? With such a long history, this characteristic could also have played an important role.

Don

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  From: glennmorton@entouch.net<mailto:glennmorton@entouch.net>
  To: asa@calvin.edu<mailto:asa@calvin.edu> ; 'anamchara7@juno.com'<mailto:'anamchara7@juno.com'>
  Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 4:02 PM
  Subject: Re: weird foods

  For some reason Sunday morning I stopped receiving emails at home. Oh well. you had over cooked octopi. Jellyfish is the same way, if you over cook it, you can't even chew it.

  I guess some of these wierd foods come about because of a sense of macho, which says something about our daring-do as a species

  On Sat Jul 23 21:05 , "anamchara7@juno.com<mailto:anamchara7@juno.com>" sent:

    OK - eeewwww!!

    I'm sorry I looked at the vile jug. I hate snakes. But I do also have a question - how do you make yourself swallow octopus? I just couldn't make myself. I chewed and chewed and chewed and it never broke down, I was worried about choking on that rubbery mass. Doesn't taste bad, really doesn't have much flavor at all. I just couldn't make myself swallow it.

    Kamilla
Received on Mon Jul 25 03:12:38 2005