I hadn't seen it that way before (and I've done my share of thinking about entomophagy and food taboos); very interesting.
I had oversimplified it to be about Americans' belief that food is sterile, and the association with insects in food with contamination.
One day while working in a cafe I discovered that a yellow jacket had crawled into a flavor syrup bottle nozzle and died. I had to make a judgment about whether the syrup was contaminated or not. Then I realized that we also had honey...
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Date: 2007-02-11 01:06 pm (UTC)I had oversimplified it to be about Americans' belief that food is sterile, and the association with insects in food with contamination.
One day while working in a cafe I discovered that a yellow jacket had crawled into a flavor syrup bottle nozzle and died. I had to make a judgment about whether the syrup was contaminated or not. Then I realized that we also had honey...