ELL: Wall Street Journal editorial

[Jim Mason]

well, i have to admit that when i was hosting a group of artists from papua
new guinea at stanford to create an outdoor sculpture garden, they got very
excited about burger king whoppers.  the whopper was the meal of choice, day
after day after day, despite my pleadings to the contrary.  no one even so
much as mentioned a single word in four months about searching out a local
franchise for sago grubs.  and as one who has eaten them on several
occassions in png, under several different preparations, i can understand
their lack of interest . . . ;-)

but sago flour pancakes are another matter.  i'll burn my fingers day after
day after day making those little delcitables in a beat up carbonized
sauspan over open flame, despite the claims of blandness often heard to the
contrary . . .


jim




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> Hey, I've eaten beetle grubs and so forth, and also Big Macs,
> though not in
> the same meal... It's interesting what goes into food
> preferences: not only
> "does it taste good or not," but what is its social or even political
> status? I've no doubt beetle grubs are more healthy than Big Macs, but is
> the current preference on this list due to purely culinary and nutrition
> factors, or is there also a political statement going on? If you offered a
> local grub-eater a Big Mac, assuming it was at all digestible to
> him, would
> he prefer it as a symbol of higher status? Conversely, how many Western
> grub-preferers are expressing more their disdain for corporate
> culture than
> any heartfelt (stomach-felt?) desire for wiggly food?
>
> Just stirring the pot a bit...
>
> Mike Cahill
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