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why are not these two typical food centers always disregarded...
One of the most clear features of a culture is if they eat rats or not...
oh this wonderful symbolic universe....cuisine....
"we eat with our brains"
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
i ask people around.. and those with education do not see any problem with bugs.. and under-graduate educated people are easily convinced when you explain the catalan custom about snails.
But rats.. it is a different world altogehter.
Ants is a middle ground... considered weird.. mroe than bugs.. but I am not sure if digsgusting.
rats is really an art.. do not know why.
can't really put my finger on why, it's just so....surreal
the mind is a restless monkey leaping between liana-threads, cackling while airborne, craving ever more info-nuts to crack open and masticate..
i'd love to do a 'inside john malkovitch' type day inside your perceptions, kc... 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
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