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Admiral Snaccbar @Chris Mench Serving shrimp with the tail still on when it’s already mixed into something (pasta, rice, etc) is insane.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Looking at my own country and other countries I’ve lived in, I think it’s to do with poverty or at least recent poverty - Portugal was very poor back in before the Revolution in 74 and still now it’s far more common around here to eat all those parts of animals (and, curiously, one of my favorite dishes is a local version of tripe) than that I noticed in The Netherlands and the UK (though the Scots do have the famous Haggis).

      The funny thing is that nowadays at least some of those things have been found to be quite healthy to eat.

      • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        We have a traditional dish in the UK which are meatballs made from minced pork liver and heart, mixed with bacon, onion and breadcrumbs. Unfortunately, I cannot name this dish because it shares the same name as a homophobic slur but they are known as “ducks” in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Lancashire.

        • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I had to look up the recipe to figure out the slur you were alluding to…yikes. I don’t blame you for not repeating the name here.

          • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Another fun fact, the shortened version of that slur (word that rhymes with ‘rag’) is what we call cigarettes.

        • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          And yet, curiously, they’re not shipped from Portugal to France even though it’s not all that much farther way than England.

          If it was all about the price being high in France then surely the Portuguese slaughterhouses would be shipping that stuff there, not selling it to butchershops in Portugal.

          I think you might be confusing cause and consequence: it’s not that the Brits and Dutch can’t eat that stuff because it all gets shipped to France as the prices are higher there, it’s that because the Brits and Dutch are not eating that stuff the prices are lower in Britain and The Netherlands than in France (were they do eat that stuff) so it mostly gets shipped to France. This latter hypothesis does explain why a country were people do eat that stuff and with lower purchasing power than France does in fact have that stuff available locally rather than it all having been exported to France.