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My delicious is your disgusting: how class and culture shape our tastes
Mar 1, 2024
Explore how class and culture influence our food preferences, from divisive dishes like oysters and rotten Icelandic shark to the controversial Vegemite. Learn about the evolutionary significance of disgust in food choices and cultural perceptions of delicious and repulsive foods.
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- Cultural influences shape our perception of food disgust, hindering acceptance of insects as sustainable protein sources.
- High-class foods can be considered both delicacies and disgusting items, highlighting the paradox in food perceptions influenced by social class markers.
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Cultural Influence on Food Disgust
Our reactions to foods are culturally learned, with insects being a sustainable protein source, hindered by global disgust. The Disgusting Food Museum in Sweden highlights cultural influences on what we find disgusting, like salty licorice and fermented shark, eliciting strong reactions. Familiarity greatly affects our food perceptions, evident when Asian visitors react to stinky cheeses differently than Europeans.
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