musings

The ubiquitous Gordon Ramsay redefined the term ‘foul-mouthed’ on his show ‘The F Word’ last night, feeding James Corden ‘Chinese delicacies’ such as chicken feet and fish eyeball. Shrieks of disgust from the lad’s family, of course.

But - hang on a minute - why exactly are certain animal parts disgusting? It’s purely cultural if these are indeed delicacies in some parts of the world. If you eat pig but not horse, liver but not brains, snails but not slugs, prawns but not cockroaches perhaps you can understand that vegetarians might be sickened by an entire show about preparing and eating animals - and not just by the cheap laugh section.

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