Discussion for article #235545
While I understand, and even applaud, your new ability to eat mystery food, as a person whose dietary requirements are not “food hangups” apparently I (and others) are dismissed.
Whether it is for religious or medical reasons, there are people who cannot take that risk. I myself have celiac disease, and a stray encounter with one wheat-sourced crumb can literally - in the literal sense of the word literally, and not the modern anything-goes usage - make me ill for at least two days. There are more people with undiagnosed food intolerances than you acknowledge. My father was not diagnosed until he was sixty. My diagnosis only happened because he established a family history.
So, congratulations on your fear-free dining. Back in the day I did that myself, and it was usually fun. I only ever needed my immodium twice in all those years.
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What, exactly, is the pictured food? It looks like tiny cabbages stuffed with bubble gum.
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I agree wholeheartedly with the author: my partner and I have become much more open to and willing to try new foods since we started traveling regularly outside the U.S.
Another Celiac here. I agree with everything you said. Traveling for me means “fearful” dining.
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I also got over my food hangups traveling Internationally.