Organ meats can appear pretty visceral on the butchers’ slab, but we’ve never seen our own human equivalents in the flesh. Hence, there’s a corporeal disconnect on some level, making it easier to cook and eat some animal parts than others, irrespective of how they actually taste. But I’m not referring to that daft nonsense where culinary scalp-hunters go in search of the most outrageous and rarest meals so they can tell you all about it via Buzzfeed or Vice. This always seems to ‘other’ the food eaten in different regions, and I really don’t want to do that, but I know from experience that penis and virility jokes come thick and fast, no matter what country you are eating your organ in, so please forgive mine. The disgust so often expressed by diners is not polite — nor is it culturally appropriate — but the amusement and teasing of westerners abroad, by the people cooking and serving their food, is. They see us.
Dangly Bits
Dangly Bits
Dangly Bits
Organ meats can appear pretty visceral on the butchers’ slab, but we’ve never seen our own human equivalents in the flesh. Hence, there’s a corporeal disconnect on some level, making it easier to cook and eat some animal parts than others, irrespective of how they actually taste. But I’m not referring to that daft nonsense where culinary scalp-hunters go in search of the most outrageous and rarest meals so they can tell you all about it via Buzzfeed or Vice. This always seems to ‘other’ the food eaten in different regions, and I really don’t want to do that, but I know from experience that penis and virility jokes come thick and fast, no matter what country you are eating your organ in, so please forgive mine. The disgust so often expressed by diners is not polite — nor is it culturally appropriate — but the amusement and teasing of westerners abroad, by the people cooking and serving their food, is. They see us.