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I'm sure if you had to survive in a different environment your gut flora and fauna would adapt to the new conditions given enough time. But unless you were forc
by daemin 13y ago
I'm sure if you had to survive in a different environment your gut flora and fauna would adapt to the new conditions given enough time. But unless you were forced to adapt with your survival at stake you'd just revert to eating whatever didn't cause you to become ill.
This does remind me of an Anthony Bourdain No Reservations episode where they ate with the bushmen, and they gave Tony the "best" part of the hog - the anus - unwashed, uncooked. If nothing else then eating those parts of animals with all their attached microbes would introduce them to you over time. Tony did get violently ill for a few days after filming the segment.
- logfromblammo 13y agoAnd that reminds me of a This American Life, where the show's producers were unable to actually uncover conclusive evidence that fried hog bung was being used as imitation calamari rings, but they did find in a blind taste test that you probably wouldn't notice if it were. So I wouldn't say it's the best part of a hog, but it certainly wouldn't be as awful as you might think. When prepared appropriately, of course. Nobody wants to eat raw swine manure as a condiment.