TV shrinks the world! I’m sitting in front of my TV watching this show called Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. I don’t know if any of you have ever seen this show, but it’s a show about a guy who travels around the world eating the native cuisine of whatever country he’s in. On this particular episode he went to Spain. He goes to the restaurant and orders this dish called suckling pig. It’s basically a baby pig that’s been gutted and cooked whole. When waiter brings him the pig, it actually looked pretty good. Now I’m thinking that he’s only going to eat the meaty parts. But that would make too much sense. Mr. Zimmern makes the comment that in Spain, nothing on the pig goes to waste. So he proceeds to eat the head portion, and when he gets to the brain he proceeds to eat the whole thing. Then he moved on to the eyes. He took a knife and spread the eyes like butter onto some bread and ate it. Now you know how you get that unsettling feeling in your stomach when you see something gross. Yeah, I didn’t get that feeling but it was still disgusting. However, I probably would try it just to see if it tastes good. I guess my point here is that TV is shrinking the world. It enables people to see what goes on around the world, even though most of what we see on TV is edited to give people a false sense of reality. But hey without the joy TV media, I would never have known that a baby pig’s brain and eyes could look so delicious.  ¶ posted by Josh at 8:11 PM •