Cuisine vs development horseshoe theory...

[jellybalm69]

I feel like there is a moderate case to be made for a horseshoe theory between the cuisine and the level of development of a country.
For example, both Sub-Saharan Africa and Scandinavia's cuisine is largely unappetizing but are polar opposites in terms of development, whereas countries in the Middle East, South America and most of Asia have pretty good food but are somewhere in the middle (i.e they're still somewhat despotic shitholes but have an average to high HDI).
That being said, there are likely many exceptions to this trend that haven't occurred to me in the past 2 minutes I've been thinking about this.
Crude diagram:

Is there something to do it? Or am I just having a bout of apophenia?

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Yeah no.

China is a big consumer of rat meat. It is commonly sold raw in Chinese meat markets, and can also be purchased cooked from various shops and street vendors. Some of the markets in China also offer live rats for sale. Buyers can then have the vendor kill and prepare the rat for cooking, or they can take their dinner home while it’s still alive.

Some people in China prefer to eat baby rat meat, and they will even eat them alive after dipping them into a sauce to add a favorite flavor. While this practice is not common throughout the Chinese population, it is done by some. Often restaurants specialize in this dish, as they will have rat pups on hand for just this purpose. Chinese meat markets don’t usually have pups on hand, so people wanting to indulge in this kind of a meal have to go elsewhere for their food. This is not advised as the risks of raw meat consumption, especially in rats, could be teeming with bacterial and viral threats.

If you want to eat tarantulas in Mexico City, you have to go to the San Juan de Pugibet market. At the local México en el Paladar they prepare some maids in Veracruz.

Live tarantulas are put in a freezer for several minutes to die and then boiled for three times; the first, with a mixture of mezcal from Oaxaca and water; the second, with wild aromatic herbs and, the last, with shrimp salt.

They are then baked and, finally, the belly is brushed to remove the remains of hair. They are eaten alone or in tacos with avocado.

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

Yeah no.

Tarantula's look like they have meat until you decide to study their anatomy and find out their just a giant penis.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

France and Italy are the best cuisines and they are the top of developed countries, a lot of popular second/third world cuisines are just bastardization of USA immigrants that are unironically treated as something those people ate in the past.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Thank you for teaching me a new word (apophenia) OP.

I've thought before about the strong relationship between a country being dysfunctional, being hot, and having a colorful culture. Mexicans, European Mediterraneans (Greeks, Italians, Spaniards), Africans, Brazilians, etc. tending to have vibrant music, cuisine, clothing, culture in general compared to cold mayo gobblers. I like to think of it as that the warm weather inspires hot passions in the people.

But it could all just come down purely to that they have more spices or whatever in that climate and the climate is also unconducive to development.

Either way, I think life is not just about maxing out GDP or HDI or whatever other faggot statistic, and there's a clear tradeoff between living in a "developed" boring shithole like Sweden and a chaotic hellhole like, say, South Africa, so a person wants to live in an entertaining moderate place, probably Mediterranean or subtropical.

 

[glow]

I would like to hear more about Scandinavia's unappetizing cuisine. Perhaps it is just not to your taste? It is not a place to be if you would like to eat "traditional" food and do not like fish. However, a great deal of dishes and cuisines are imported so you can just get a roast dinner or currywurst or some sushi or whatever.

I think the difference between the two countries is quite simple: Earlier northern europeans had to stockpile food to survive winter, and they had to come up with more and more advanced mechanisms to do so, eventually leading to an agricultural revolution and following this an industrial revolution as techniques got better and better. As this went on, civilization changed to suit the new way of life.

Surviving winter is not a problem in sub-saharan africa, so the rest of this didn't happen. They had their own survival challenges of course but it seems that this didn't lead to the development of advanced civilization, which would be an interesting idea to explore.