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May 9th 2007 11:46
What a wonderful and interesting repository of knowledge! Weird Food is dedicated to all things weird and wonderful. It exposes eating as part of a complex cultural phenomena, and suggests that weird food is used as a marker of exclusion and inclusion for ethnic/community groups.
“Nearly every culture invents a food that is weird or disgusting to outsiders.”
You can search for types of weird food too, or add your own, or simply explore the site by categories. (animal, vegetable or mineral?)
Here’s just one example I came across;
“In Georgia & Alabama, in the Southeastern United States, there are rural, generally poor, pockets where eating a particular type of chalky, white clay called "kaolin" is common...The persistent consumption of non-food items has a technical term: pica. Eating dirt, clay, etc., is called geophagia.”
This is a great site to browse if you’re bored and looking for some strange information about the wonderful world of food. (Of which there’s really no shortage on the internet.)
http://www.weird-food.com
“Nearly every culture invents a food that is weird or disgusting to outsiders.”
You can search for types of weird food too, or add your own, or simply explore the site by categories. (animal, vegetable or mineral?)
Here’s just one example I came across;
This is a great site to browse if you’re bored and looking for some strange information about the wonderful world of food. (Of which there’s really no shortage on the internet.)
http://www.weird-food.com
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