You won't catch me eating either octopus, squid, or clams.
Around here, weird food is in plentiful supply, and a visit to one of the Asian grocery stores is almost like a trip to the circus.
Genuan cooking, like the best cooking everywhere in the multiverse, had been evolved by people who had to make desperate use of ingredients their masters didn’t want. No one would even try a bird’s nest unless they had to. Only hunger would make a man taste his first alligator. No one would eat a shark’s fin if they were allowed to eat the rest of the shark.
- Terry Pratchett,Witches Abroad