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It's strange to me, this reminds me of all the expensive asian food I've had over the years from clients/friends/rich assholes trying to "show you what REAL korean/japanese/chinese food is like"

I just don't get into it, it's someone else's life, someone else's history, someone else's tongue that it's meant for. Every time they expat would get all cocky about how delicious something is, he'd pass me some plate full of gelatinous, overcooked, barely-intact noodles drenched in tumor-looking eggs or congealed bricks glazed in some umami flavored corn syrup.

In the back of my head I know that as much as they class it up today, it's slop food meant for survival, meant to be buried in a clay pot next to the family outhouse so you have something to eat next winter when the harvest fails. If you're in brazil, and they bring out fish head caldo, you'll wrinkle your nose....suddenly the asians do it and it's exotically palatable.

I'm sure it's delicious to them, though, and that's what's cool about all this. DIversity in mankind is cool, as long as we protect and continue it. I'm just for culinary segregation, we don't have to like each other's weird stuff

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