I was outside minding my own business, drinking some water. This old lady I've never met comes up to me and gives me this big ol' lecture about...
How it's unhealthy to drink water. Supposedly all the water you could ever need comes from the food you eat and the coffee you drink. I don't know how she's survived this long
If people are alive anywhere, they're eating something - even if it's from a soup kitchen, or crickets and grubs. The first world has plenty of people with malnutrition and chronic uncertainty about their next meal.
I expect every place to have it's own cuisine and culture.
But what does fascinate me is how so many foods are accepted as traditional, when really it's only since the 1600s and colonialism when many foods started to travel.
Noodles (pasta) were invented by the Chinese and adopted by the Italians, and have now spread almost everywhere. Tomatoes, potatoes, coffee, chocolate and many others come from South America. I looked up the wikipedia list of food origins: the whole world is now growing and eating many foods that evolved on far distant continents and island.
Very few eat only their traditional cultural foods - but some do. The French love to specialise in their regional cuisines. And it turns out that the few Pygmies who still live their traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle have the healthiest gut biome in the world - over 4,000 beneficial species of gut bacteria due to consuming such a wide variety of forest foods.
Not all are. But those that are might be because of exploitation by other countries and self serving political leaders. Because really, African countries and resource rich! Culture rich too!
@blackdiamonds I was answering your question as asked. I made no reference to you or your nationality. I was quoting a teen-aged person talking to an Asian person. :)
Oh, definitely I’ve heard things along that line. I remember this a few years back:
On a more local level, I once watched with interest while a guy informed my younger sister that "black people don’t swim". When she advised him that she was a Red Cross certified lifeguard, he was literally speechless.
No shit.................a post in a conservation magazine. "It is so stupid of the cops to put up Deer Crossing signs. When deer go there to cross roads cars hit them".
