 Re: Re: The steak of the crocodile and the leg of the kangaroo...
Quote: Originally posted by lamington
I don't think anyone has said this yet, so: I'm not sure why you view this as a new phenomenon, Athenaeus... Humans have always tested anything they could catch/pluck/harvest to see if it was worth eating.
| True but this always was vital when they were in a primordial stage. Now that we have everything here is Athens can't we live without crocodile? Quote: |
The things we don't eat either taste awful, are poisonous, or yield too little edible material for the effort of catching/cultivating them. The only change is that the foods that are geographically limited in origin can now be transported to new environments. Again, the same thing humans have always done.
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The consumption of food is restricted by religious codes and social taboos as well.
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02-21-2004, 01:05 PM
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