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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There's a certain degree to which it's "natural" to recoil at insects as being associated with vermin and decay, although I don't think it's any more "natural" than recoiling at eating something that bleeds red blood like a human does
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I mean, both of the things I just named are major components of kashrut
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It's funny thinking about how animals you're okay with eating have to fall in the zone between "viscerally disgusted by them" and "like them enough to think of them as people"
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Like in India, how the logics for abstaining from beef as a Hindu and for abstaining from pork as a Muslim are exactly opposite from each other
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When it comes to eating raccoons it seems like two halves of American culture turned against the concept for these two opposite reasons simultaneously -- you either think of a raccoon as a pet or you think of it as disgusting vermin
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Raccoon meat was never super common, since it is extremely gamey But it was once considered an all-American tradition, part of the staple diet of the fur-trapping pioneers who first lit out West etc. (you can't just waste the meat after you make a coonskin cap)
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Long, long before Ronald Reagan started the facetious "turkey pardon" tradition, this actually happened with Calvin Coolidge The White House pet raccoon Rebecca was originally intended to be served for a traditional American Thanksgiving feast and was "pardoned"
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This right here is why I love being back on twitter.
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I'm making sure Rebecca the pardoned Raccoon is the last thing I read about tonight.
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