Alex Rast wrote:

> Isn't there a risk of confusing ethnicity/country of origin from genestock?


Yes. The original poster phrased the question in terms of food
preferences being genetic and then gave examples having to do with
ethnicity and country of origin. I continued the confusion when I might
have pointed out, as you did, that genetics and ethnicity are usually
two different things except for those instances where they overlap. I
believe that in the gist of what we're saying we agree.


Interesting that you mention green peppers as an example of a food that
people love or hate and might have a genetic component as to why. I was
a picky kid who wouldn't eat vegetables. My odd exception was green
peppers. I loved them, still do. I can remember a time when I was in
my 20s and eating a raw green pepper unsliced as others might eat an
apple leaving the seeds in the center to be thrown out as a core. I
passed a woman who made a face and called out "throw it away." I could
see that eating the pepper like that was unusual but hardly gross the
way eating live bugs in public might be.


--Lia