We may have our Italian-American cineastes _ most notably Francis Ford Coppola in " The Godfather " _ to thank for smashing the food taboo by showing that real men not only eat but cook.
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It is a common Brazilian food taboo that mixing rice and a gluten-possessing cereal or cereal-based food is not a good thing to be done, but some people still dip bread in the soup, as the Portuguese do.
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Anyone who states that each cuisine is individual ( I see the argument coming ) is flawed in that argument because each culture has food taboos, they just are not a major part of the cuisine as a whole.
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:: : Stephen Pinker suggests, in " How the Mind Works " that the purpose of food taboos is to control the young and impressionable members of your tribe by making it impossible for them to eat with outsiders.
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The main functional " purpose " of food taboos is to foster community cohesion, by preventing them from sharing food with ( therefore accepting hospitality and friendship from ) outsiders . talk ) 14 : 19, 1 May 2009 ( UTC)
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This local deviation from the standard menu is a characteristic for which the chain is particularly known, and one which is employed either to abide by regional food taboos ( such as the Ebi ( prawn ) Burger in Singapore and Japan ).
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:: : : Personally, I side with Pinker; I'd say it applies not just to food taboos but to all arbitrary religious edicts-still, I suppose the question is why that particular taboo was chosen by the early abrahamic religions . 00 : 07, 4 May 2009 ( UTC)
