Students were most likely to experiment with trying new foods that were of non-animal origin. There was nothing much you could do to convince the students to try animal foods that were unfamiliar. The results suggested, that emotional reactions to animal foods may block information effects . Knowing this ahead of time can save a lot of fights at the dinner table. Don t wait until your kids are in college to feed them fried eel.
Some food choices are immune to education or threat.
In southern Mexico in the state of Oaxaca, they serve guests a delicacy called chapulines tiny, spicy, salty little grasshoppers harvested in the summer fields. I was offered some once, and mistaking them for peanuts I crunched some down. As I realized my error too late to do anything but swallow, I was grateful for my mother s culinary misadventure many years ago. Just another experience in the life of a chilehead.