Eating habits, as well as other socially acquired habits, show an extensive variety of human concepts respecting food. We are able to transform almost anything into food, which is why different social groups eat different things in different ways. We all identify with what we do and don't eat. It is curious to observe how we don't eat everything edible within our reach, our food preferences are in accordance to the view of the world shared by the group to which we belong. We tend see as "different" those people who eat food which is strange to us, and even those who eat the same things but in a different way. We have even gotten to the point, at some time in history, to consider these differences as less human than ours.
