Quote Originally Posted by koolking1
Lastly, I

have to agree 100% with the posters who are more tolerant of other culture's eating habits. It' not our place to

judge that aspect of another's culture and if you don't judge and are in some other country, you are more apt to

enjoy the people and their culture, you might even get invited out to a great feast and make a lot of new friends.

When I took Sue to Thailand last year she discovered she liked eating fried grubs and she was a hit with the locals

because she didn't shy away from it. Protein!
My older sister's inlaws are Japanese and her husband was a

very good friend of mine. As a result I was exposed to their culture. Yuki, his mother, was a fine cook but I

learned to never ask what I was eating until I had tried it.

Since those days I have been around many cultures

and have been enriched by every one of them. We westerners are often arrogant and spoiled. Reality is that these

people have their own cultures, many of them thousands of years older than our own and all of them worthy of

respect. I'd get pretty pissed if somebody came in and tried to tell me to change my way of life to suit them. I'd

fight back too and it wouldn't be much prettier than what you see on the news now.