daizee
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All food is psychological, especially when it comes to animal/fish/fowl/sundry living creature flesh. I love lobster - but seriously, they're giant, ocean-going arthropods. They have exoskeletons - like insects. Clams? Love 'em....but try to explain eating a whole steamer to someone who can't wrap their head around eating a mollusk's stomach. I tried sweetbreads once when I was a kid - what I remember was they tasted good, but after the second bite and I asked what were sweetbreads really and was told the answer (calf's brains) that was the end of it. The only thing I sneak into food without telling people is vegetable stuff. Pumpkin bread made with tofu, chopped up broccoli stems in the curry...that sort of stuff. This summer my neighbor made an "apple" crisp - that was so good and was so much like apple crisp that even though they told me it wasn't apples, I could not guess what it was - it zucchini. Anyway, I still will NOT be eating monkey anytime soon.
Yeah, I don't eat no sea bugs (crustaceans) anymore. Also, the protein in them that most allergics react to is one shared with the terrestrial cockroach (which allergics also react to).