Zoo animals on menu in bad taste

The Chinese people have a reputation of being able to eat anything - whether it walks, crawls or slithers. The only thing they won't eat with four legs are tables, and the only thing that flies they won't eat are airplanes, or so says an old Chinese saying.

And when you consider Beijing's Wangfujing "snack" street, for example, you'd say the Chinese deserve that ugly reputation. That's the street where you can get scorpions or silk worms on a stick, seahorses on skewers, grilled snakes, lizard legs and practically anything you can think of.

But that reputation never bothered me. After all, people in some countries eat things that others would consider bizarre.