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Take my comment as someone from the Nordics without any fact to base this on: Most nordics consider oysters as exotic as eating frog, snails, or calf brain - n
by abricot 9y ago
Take my comment as someone from the Nordics without any fact to base this on:
Most nordics consider oysters as exotic as eating frog, snails, or calf brain - not something they would be caught doing. (You might have more people ready for the Idea in the capitals) so yes, outside of restaurants there is pretty much no demand for oyster.
As for the Chinese, they are shown in the news to eath all kinds of things that there is zero demand for at home - be it types of fish that aren't part of our cuisine, and byproducts of poultry, pigs and others that have traditionaly not been used in food production.
- charlesdm 9y agoReally? Frogs, snails or calf brain? In Belgium (and I'm pretty sure this applies to the UK and France as well), it's not at all uncommon to eat oysters. I don't mind the occasional oyster, but probably couldn't be caught eating calf brain..
- Wildgoose 9y agoSeriously? I am English and whilst I only eat oysters occasionally I wouldn't think they would be considered unusual - and certainly not "exotic". I would have thought our fish and shellfish eating habits would be fairly similar?
- twic 9y agoMaybe we in Britain picked up the habit from the Romans during the occupation. I'm no expert, but I believe Scandinavia was never occupied by the Romans, so perhaps they never had a chance to learn the mysteries of the oyster.
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