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Why don't they eat them? The USA has a tradition of being a land of plenty and so people eat what they have always eaten before. For almost all of America that
by ky3 12y ago
Why don't they eat them?
The USA has a tradition of being a land of plenty and so people eat what they have always eaten before. For almost all of America that means chicken or beef, invariably. And turkey during that time of the year.
They have no tradition of organ meat, meaning liver, tripe, hoofs, etc.
The conservatism in tastes mean a lot of work cut out for anyone trying to sell new food in what is still a highly industrialized landscape and high barriers-to-entry sales channels.
E.g. if you're poor you eat deer until you grow up traumatized by it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9351269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9351269