How to eat relate to the culture

How to eat relate to the culture

Many cultures study the dietary analysis of food habits. While humans are religion and social constructs such as morality often affect which foods they will consume. Food safety is also a concern with foodborne illness claiming many lives each year. In many languages, food is often used metaphorically or figuratively, as in "food for thought".

I have a friend who ever lived in Latin America, he told me about his experience during stayed there. He told me that He had soup almost every day for lunch during the two years he lived there. It was hot soup even though it was around 100 degrees outside with no air-conditioning inside. Often the soup had an actual chicken's foot in it! The first time he saw a chicken's foot in my soup, he was shocked and thought it must be a joke until he saw everyone else eating their chicken's foot.

Some cultural differences can seem strange or even weird, but they are just that - differences. Remember, just because someone does things different or eats different things, it doesn't make them "weird". Instead of saying, "Wow - that's weird!" try saying "That is different."