Last summer when I was living in Taiwan, coming to each meal was always a surprise. One night I came down for dinner and I sat down to see what seemed to be like chicken noodle soup, a little relieved to see something somewhat familiar I sat down and my friend Wing’s mom picked up my bowl and scooped me out some, handed it to me and too my surprise when I look down the was a big chicken foot sticking out of it. I just kind of looked at it for awhile, but when I’m in other countries I’m always kind of scared to offend the people I’m staying with so I kind of politely started drinking my soup just kind of avoiding this big chicken foot and everyone was kind of doing the same but then I looked up and her dad had finished his soup and picked up the chicken leg and just starting eating the skin off it. So when I finished my soup I picked it up and tried to eat as much as I could of it, but it was pretty bad to me just kind of like a rubbery weird texture and grossed me out real bad. It was so strange to just see her dad pick it up with no problem and just start going at it.
In regards to the article my sister used to have a guinea pig so I don’t feel like I could ever really eat one. It had babies and all, so we for a while we had like five. Well also from his description it just sounds horrible. Or like a half developed egg, or most of the things brought up in this article, I just don’t feel like I could do it.
Chinese Chicken Imports. New York Times [serial online]. September 29, 2009:1. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed April 13, 2010.
Samuelson, Robert J. "Let them eat dog food?." Columbia Journalism Review 13.3 (1974): 4-8. Communication & Mass Media Complete. EBSCO. Web. 13 Apr. 2010.
Wow this story made me laugh out loud! I feel like you handled this situation about the same way that I would have. Most foods i have a fairly easy time getting over, but something like a chicken foot is pretty hard to disguise. It also makes it easier to eat abstract foods when they aren't such recognizable textures. A chicken foot would not make that aspect easy at all! Thanks for sharing that comical horror story haha!
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