Taboo Foods
by For French snails – "les escargots" – is a culinary delight, while other nations of Europe considered disgusting to eat it. For Europeans and Americans, bats are anything but food does not, in contrast, people in many Asian countries have no problem with it and often can be seen, markets, stalls bats skinned ready for cooking.
For us, eating insects is an aberration, but locusts, ants and larvae of all sorts are some goodies for some populations in Asia, Africa and Australia. Each with his food: in addition to preferences – we like to eat – the most important cultural aspect of diet composition are food taboos – what we eat not, for reasons often subjective, but no less valid.
The notion of taboo link to ban a certain behavior, based on the ancient traditions. Food taboos, more specifically, relates to what we do not want to eat or drink, for religious, cultural, hygienic times.
Often there are objective reasons to refuse a food or another – we would not harm them, and generally would not hurt anyone – but nothing is stronger than habit and power of tradition.
rules, different a population to another, but very strict governing human habits of different groups.What animals can eat and how they slaughtered, prepared and consumed, which parts of bodies of these animals can be eaten and not, which foods are permitted / prohibited during certain periods (post, for example), or in some physiological situations (pregnancy) or certain classes … All these rules form complex code, followed by many people even in these times of freedom of thought and the mixture of cultures. Sometimes it’s the simple superstition: ”[A difficult woman] is not good to eat two who are grown and berries stuck together, [...] do not eat any berries intertwined, as will be twins.Such is not good to eat fruit beans Sunday, is Bo-land for child-minded and dull, and all his only commit evil acts. “ ”Do not eat meat from a spit uncut, for children with language will be caught.” ”Do not eat soup filled day sec, for the child will have some sort of Bub-us called shots.” (Simeon Flor-ea Marian - Birth in Romanian ) And so on, were so many special prohibitions during pregnancy, and above the ordinary, that you wonder that poor pregnant women come here to eat something. (True, but they were not bound by days of fasting.)
Sometimes the restrictions are part of a whole system of religious practices. Faithful Muslims do not consume pork or alcohol in Judaism there is a code strictly traditional food (kashrut), based on the requirements of biblical books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy , as to what to eat and what not, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists also have rules on foods allowed or prohibited, generally or at certain times, every religion, every culture has its taboos.
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