Yes, Ive enjoyed a fair few exotic delicacies in my time and occasionally endured them.

A trip around a Lao jungle market is akin to a trip around your local zoo, its a great wildlife spotting oppotunity.

Anyway, I can also confirm that the exotic hard to stomach thing works in reverse as well.

Just recently I had the oppotunity to Dine with several Shipibo Indians, as it was my treat I chose a vegetarian resturant. Theres quite a few in Peru, generally operated by a vegetarian schism in the Seventh Day Adventist religion.

As it was down to me to order I selected quite a few steamed veggies, if you could see the look on their faces as they sampled steamed broccoli, it was like as if Id
ordered them rat poison. They where Oh so polite and all of them left the broccoli in a neat pile on thier plates.

Some years back I was travelling in Nepal and one morning I was tucking into Marmite and bread. Quite quickly I had a gang of kids eyeing up what to them looked like chocalate spread on bread. I generously offered them free run of my Marmite and bread.....Boy! Again if you could have seen their little faces upon tasting my by product of the British brewing indusrty...Poor things!