Of the reasons listed
in Iyer’s work is the it “stands everything you took for granted on its head”.
And I agree, things that we never imagined people lived without are suddenly
rare or inexistent. In Spain, there are no scrambled eggs at hotels, although
they do serve them in other recipes, such as “Huevos Rotos”. In a small village
Lake Victoria, in Africa, an unfertilized chicken egg is seen as a waste,
because they see only the full-grown birds as food, and since an unfertilized
egg can’t provide one, they are thrown away, without knowing that it is so
common in the rest of the world to eat it. And as shocking as it is to find
these things don’t exist in other cultures, isn’t it all the more interesting
to find the things that we’ve been missing out on?
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