The Strangest Food, from Another Perspective
I enjoyed your piece about strange foods, and found that an equally
interesting question would be to find out what other cultures find just
plain odd and strange about our food. For example, in China (and even the
Western-conscious Hong Kong), the very concept of cheese is most definitely
strange.
Not only is the taste suspiciously rancid to their tongue, but the process
of making cheese is sure to make most shudder. It is, after all, nothing
more than forcibly expressed bodily fluids coagulated with the scrapings
of the intestinal tract of said animal. Not very appetizing, when you come
to think of it!
And by the way, the durian fruit has, I think, been best described by a
British journalist (the name escapes me now, unfortunately) as eating a
warm garlic custard over an open London Sewer in the summer time.
Peter
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