There are not many things I won’t eat, but…
I like food. I cannot lie:) And for the overwhelming majority of my life, I have not eaten good food. You know, food high in fat. You know, good food:) In the last 3 years, due to a health issue, I’ve had to significantly reduce my fat intake, so I don’t eat a lot of meat and pretty much no fried food:( No burgers, no fried fish, no chicken fingers, no steak:(
This week’s ARTICLE focuses on food, but don’t get too excited cause these are foods will not likely be available anytime soon here in the USA. The article addresses 22 foods that are not allowed in the US and let me know which food you would eat and which you definitely wouldn’t eat.
I too am a food enthusiast and like many Americans, I occasionally prefer taste rather than nutritional value when it comes to choosing my diet. I found the list of food items that are banned in the U.S. very interesting and intriguing. I appreciate how the article also mentioned the reasoning behind banning these foods. After perusing the different foods, I decided foie gras and ortolan are two foods that I definitely won’t be eating. I think it is inhumane to force feed a tiny songbird and drown it in brandy; I mean, how sad! I also think that force feeding geese to achieve foie gras is also a practice that I don’t want to participate in. On the other hand, unpasteurized milk is something I would like to try at some point. I know of a few locals in Wyoming who actually market this product back home so I did some research and it turn out that four states (Wyoming, South Dakota, Missouri, and Vermont) actually allow the sale of raw milk. Overall, I think that most foods on the “forbidden” list are properly justified because banning them in the U.S. protects the animal they are derived from. Great read!
Growing up in a Latin/Hispanic household, we ate some food that some of my friends today would turn their noses to. I like a good bowl of menudo (tripe) and some delicious trips (small intestines) tacos. That being said, I am very particular about the preparation of these dishes if I am eating them outside of my own home. Reading the article, there are quite a few dishes I would not consume, starting with haggis; it is just a hard pass looking at the photos in the articles. The second dish would be Casu martzu aka maggot cheese. Looking up that dish on Google left some undesired feelings. The item mentioned in the article I would eat would be the red drum fish since there are regulations on how many can be caught.