Cardiac check up
I saw this in a market in a South East Asian country recently. I wanted to have a taste of it, but it was too late that day and already full. So I thought I’d try another day. But I did take some photos and sent them to friends and family. The response I got was: “How can you even think about this?”; “Someone’s poison is someone else’s delicacy—how can that be?; “Are you going to eat a plate of the ‘abominable’?” one asked. Another response was almost: “How can they eat such things? Are they even human?” I was okay with the “whew’s,” “phew’s,” and “ugh’s,” but writing people off based on their cuisine - I found that a bit challenging. In the shrub in our garden, we get three types of birds. One - the hummingbirds - come in to suck the nectar. Then there’s the group that comes to pick up bird feed from the feeder. And finally, the crows that collect all the junk from the floor. But their food does not disqualify them from the family of ornithes . Does what goes in - or what we eat ...