First of all, humans eat strange food. We “all” eat vegetables or meat, but there are places in this world where people cook things that makes you want to throw up. For instance, in China, you can find the well-known “century egg”. It’s rotten and smells sulfur, and some people still eat it… If you don’t really like eggs, then in France you can eat snails. SNAILS! Why do they cook this thing?! It drools, it’s slimy, and french people eat it in restaurants. At least they bake it, because it would be really disgusting if they didn’t. Speaking of weird animals we can eat, you can visit Cambodia and taste fried spiders. Don’t panic, these are absolutely dead. Apparently it has more meat than a grasshopper, but it also has brown sludge in the abdomen, which consists of mainly innards, eggs and excrement. So, personally, I will not eat some of them because I’m afraid of having baby spiders living in my stomach. There is too many weird food, so I only took few examples. But if you have some time to waste, you can search some strange food like “blood pancakes” or “frog legs” (again from french people!).

Now, I will talk about how humans eat their food. Most humans use cutlery or their hands to eat but some of them use utensils or strange methods. For example, in China, instead of eating pasta with cutlery, Chinese people use chopsticks. It’s really hard to use them, because you have to take it with only one hand! And they also use it to eat sushi or fish. Japanese people use chopsticks too. Speaking of Japanese people, they have many rules when they eat. For example, you can’t point someone with your chopsticks during a conversation, or you can’t sort the food in your dish with your chopsticks.

Then, I will talk about strange places where you can eat. Some restaurants are really weird, because of the decoration, the ambiance, what we eat there, or whatever we can see there and nowhere else. For instance, the “Ithaa Rangali Island” in Maldives, is a restaurant… under water! You can eat and watch fishes at the same time. What is the point? Ok it’s beautiful, but it’s really expensive! Maybe it’s an unforgettable moment, maybe it’s a money loss… The second one is “Dinner in the sky” in Belgium, and the name spoiled you. It’s literally a table suspended in the air by a crane on which you eat. A good idea if you are a fan of heights, but not a good idea for your money or your dizzying son…

Finally, I will talk about ecological and environmental problems due to human food. This is where the funny part ends and where the “ugly” part starts. Foremost, humans are killing more and more animals to feed themselves. And it leads to the disappearance of species, like Dodo in Maurice island, which disappeared because of human hunting. Some fish species also have begun to disappear due to fishing, especially in Asia, where fishing is overused and where many killed fishes are not eaten. Next, agriculture uses more and more fertilizer and herbicides, which pollute soil and water. Agriculture also causes the destruction of the Amazon forest in Brazil and at the same time the destruction of the house of many species of animals. Food has too much impact on the environment, I couldn’t not talk about it.