Throughout my time in Asia, I have seen people eat many different weird, very bizarre foods. I have seen a lot of foods that incorporate seafood. For example, at one restaurant, your waiter will bring you a bowl of shrimp swimming in beer. You watch as the shrimp become drunk, bump into the glass in the bowl, and eventually die. Then, the shrimp are slightly cooked and added to your main dish. Many other dishes are created with squid and are considered delicacies. Some of the weirdest dishes I have seen are chicken feet, bird nests, shark fin soup, and snake soup. On the streets in Cambodia, I ate grilled cockroaches. The man was also selling grilled frogs and flies. Culture plays a big part on diet as different cultures have different traditional dishes and drinks. For example, drinking fermented milk is a delicacy in Mongolia, while it is considered disgusting in America. Also, there are different types of food in different areas of the world, so people in Asia will eat different food than people in America. For example, when I am in Asia I can eat a lot of rice and mangoes, while in America I can eat a lot of corn and soy beans. The availability of different foods in different areas will affect what the people of the different areas will eat.
Globalization will affect what people around the world eat because food from different regions will be available to a lot of other regions. Food can be quickly transported from country to country, depending on the demand for it. No longer will people in Australia only get to eat fruit and vegetables from Australia, but can get food from any other continent as a result of quick trading techniques. This easy availability to any type of food can begin to cut down on the differences between cultures. For example, McDonald's has spread all over the world, creating a desire for fast food in most countries. Twenty years ago, this was not the case but now many areas depend on McDonald's and Starbucks. Their local foods have lost importance, as famous food chain restaurants dominate the market. Globalization has begun to merge cultures all together, so that there are not distinctions between cultures but more of a mesh of one worldly culture. As globalization continues, cultures will continue to lose their distinctions - one of these distinctions will be their special foods and drinks