I don't really get how Americans in particular became so uniquely squicked out by the thought of eating any part of any animal they can't get at a Texas steakhousehttps://twitter.com/aquariuschicken/status/1326810777861304321 …
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I know there's discourse about how it's morally wrong if not outright ableist to shame people for not being "adventurous" with their culinary choices (and ethnocentrist to refer to any food as "adventurous" to begin with) but like your palate is totally socially constructed
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like do you think it's in your DNA to be chickenshit about eating tripe, or insects for that matter because I assure you it is not
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If we ever actually get off this planet I absolutely guarantee insects will be a staple because growing large mammals for food is just ludicrously inefficient.
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And I say that having the same culturally programmed revulsion to the idea. Though I have managed to deprogram myself somewhat by thinking of them as just land crustaceans (which taxonomically speaking they are anyway).
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Replying to @nivenus @Nymphomachy
What's actually funny is that most Americans started out *more* averse to shellfish as being just giant sea bugs -- lobster being trash food in the 19th century only fit for canning to feed to prisoners (and "lobster" just being an old word for "spider")
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Shellfish seem to have become more acceptable as they got more expensive and exotic But it's an aversion that plenty of people still have -- I've heard people remark that keeping kosher just makes them logically consistent compared to average Americans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Oh yeah my youngest brother doesn't really like shellfish for the same reason I've adjusted my way of thinking about insects.
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