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We really don’t eat a wide variety of foods

by Gillian Polack

I’ve been thinking about Japan over the last few days, because several of my friends are there, enjoying the World Fantasy Convention. My Japanese friends and I used to have long conversations about food and one thing I realised, very early on, is that even the foodie Australian or American or Brit has a rather limited diet. In the small universe we live in, a lot of those conversations happened in Yokohama and Tokyo, during one of the best fortnights of my life.

This is perhaps not the best way to remind you that there are other foods in the world than the ones we eat, and that not all foods look delicious to all people. In fact, it’s rather an evil way.

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Posted in General, other primary sources on September 4th, 2007

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2 Responses to “We really don’t eat a wide variety of foods”

  1. Jo Kasper Says:
    September 4th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    Just goes to show that Americans will eat anything as long as it’s deep-fried!! I’m realising that I’m not adventurous when it comes to food, I would have to be beyond starving before I would eat a cockroach, deep-fried or not *grin*.

  2. Gillian Polack Says:
    September 5th, 2007 at 4:34 am

    My excuse for not eating cockroaches is that they’re not kosher :). Well, they aren’t. Just ask a rabbi.

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