I don't know about his supposition that people will be more open to eating strange foods if they have no other choices.
Historically, that's how it's been. When people reach starvation level - eat it or die - that's when strange foods start entering the menu. For example, until the mass starvation at the end of WWII, whale consumption had been limited to a few small villages on the coast of Japan. The Americans established the industry as a way to feed the large masses of people who no longer had any jobs, farms, or any way to get themselves food.
It's definitely the perspective thing, though. US food culture is atrocious. Being a white kid raised in China compared to that is definitely a privilege.
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Date: 2008-06-12 02:55 am (UTC)Historically, that's how it's been. When people reach starvation level - eat it or die - that's when strange foods start entering the menu. For example, until the mass starvation at the end of WWII, whale consumption had been limited to a few small villages on the coast of Japan. The Americans established the industry as a way to feed the large masses of people who no longer had any jobs, farms, or any way to get themselves food.
It's definitely the perspective thing, though. US food culture is atrocious. Being a white kid raised in China compared to that is definitely a privilege.