[ExI] bug eating again, was: RE: tabby's star dimming again

[William Flynn Wallace]

In Japan, for example,
eating fruit skins is horrifying. That includes grape skins!  spike


Now I thought the Japanese would eat anything, even things trying to crawl
off their plate.


ARRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH - Spike, please consider not using the word 'instinct'
around me.  It upsets my stomach.  Or - define it.  Now you would not want
to be using words you can't define, do you?  No.  (Using synonyms is a
cop-out)


If I had to eat things that gross me out, I would.  Since I don't, I
won't.  I am perfectly happy with the awesome, incredible selection that
faces me at Kroger and Walmart, thank you very much.  Them furriners will
just have to stay unhappy that I won't eat their foods.

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----------you will gain insights on why so many
weight-loss programs fail.  Your instinct will overpower your will power.
 spike
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Now Spike, you are right, of course.  But consider:  obese Ss were put on a
starvation diet.  Hunger went away and stayed away after three days.  Hard
to do?  Yes.  Impossible?  Not at all.  If you can outlast a headache you
can outlast hunger.  It does go away after a while.

Will power is another term that defies definition.


bill w

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 10:38 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

>
> >... On Behalf Of SR Ballard
> Subject: Re: [ExI] bug eating again, was: RE: tabby's star dimming again
>
> >...Being retro-actively grossed out by food to me is just silly. You ate
> it, you liked it, you didn't die.
> ...
> >...Culture is weird. I admit I would feel some type of way if I were
> trying
> to eat an eyeball, but I'd try anything else as long as you didn't tell me
> what it was first. IMO it's better to try food then find out what it is, so
> that your preconceptions about food don't override reality.
> _______________________________________________
>
>
>
> There is a trick to it, one I will share.
>
> On several occasions I have been called upon to share some specialized
> culture's food.  Good example Vietnamese party food.  They have all kinds
> of
> stuff you are better off know knowing, but many of my friends and neighbors
> are Vietnamese expatriates.
>
> When anticipating such an event, go about three or four days beforehand to
> a
> low or nearly zero-fat high fiber diet, bland if possible, white rice,
> white
> bread, bran, potatoes (no butter) that sort of thing, green leafy
> vegetables
> but nothing zippy, sufficient calories but little or no fat.  Then on party
> day, eeeeeverything looks tasty, irregardful of what it is or was.  People
> like it when the local white guy eats their cultural delicacies.
>
> Once one devours some revolting delicacy and it doesn't cause gastronomic
> distress, the process somehow resets the mechanism that grosses one
> outwardly.  It works!
>
> Even if you don't have a party, I recommend you try at some point the super
> low fat temporary diet.  If you do it, you will gain insights on why so
> many
> weight-loss programs fail.  Your instinct will overpower your will power.
>
> spike
>
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