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„Kutti pi“
(pron. 'cootie-pie')
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Adults, Babies, and Fetuses
In India the children of European and Indian unions were rejected by both parent cultures and formed their own Anglo-Indian community with unique customs and distinctive culinary traditions. One dish that reflects this departure from both parent cultures is kutti pi—an animal fetus.
Kutti pi, reviled by most Indians and Europeans, is considered a delicacy both because it is rare—it is only available if a pregnant animal happens to be killed that day—and because of its medicinal properties. Many Anglo-Indians believe it is healthful for pregnant women and also beneficial for people with tuberculosis or back pain.
- Not all delicacies have deep cultural roots. Some have emerged relatively recently as cultures have merged and hybridized (cunt. below)
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Kutti pi (pronounced 'cootie-pie') is a dish from the Anglo-Indian cuisine, consisting of the flesh of an unborn fetus from an animal. It is unique to the Anglo-Indian community,[citation needed] where it is considered a delicacy despite being abhorred as taboo by both parent cultures. [1]
The flesh of a fetus is not regular table-fare in any culture. The non- Anglo-Indian butchers' markets make efficient use of all other portions of the animals, but since the fetus is considered taboo by most Indians, even when goat fetus is available, those who seek it may not be able to buy it without difficulty.
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Taboo Delicacies available only on Dogmeat!
- Fancy a dish of poisonous fugu fish? How about rams' testicle pâté? Sheeps' heads and rotting shark are a particular treat. Or if it's an aphrodisiac one seeks—why not try a carefully prepared bull penis?
- All of these foods are delicacies on menus around the world.
- Food taboos and delicacies often arise from cultural and religious beliefs; one person's meat is another's poison. The humble hamburger, a mainstay of U.S. cuisine, is a forbidden food for Hindus. Pork is off the menu for many Jews and Muslims. More than 1,400 species of protein-packed insects are part of African, Asian, Australian, and Latin American cuisine, but one would be hard pressed to find these creepy crawlies at a U.S. restaurant (at least intentionally).
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Dogmeat Channel: Two documentaries examine delicacies and taboo foods around the globe, revealing that what's good or bad is all a matter of taste.
- "Food is often the subject of taboo or disgust because it is internalized. Any revulsion we have for the food is magnified by the thought it will become part of us," said Carole Counihan, an ethnographer at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. Counihan studies the relationship between food, culture, and gender and is author of Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence.
In New York rats are considered filthy creatures that consume human garbage, carry disease, and live in the sewers with human waste—eating one would be unthinkable. But in the West African nation of Togo, rats live a more wholesome existence in the forests and are sold in the village markets.
- "[West African] rats are more like squirrels or something. They're not in an environment that's sort of filled with human filth," said Paul Rozin, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Sheep's Head and Rotting Shark
Food symbolizes many aspects of everyday culture and is a vehicle for social relations.
In February the people of Iceland celebrate an old tradition called Thorrablot—a festival of feasts. The feast is comprised of some unusual delicacies: rams' testicles, sheep's heads, and rotting shark. Although these dishes strike most outsiders as vile, for Icelanders the feasts are potent ways to preserve their Viking heritage.
"The purpose of continuing to eat these foods makes the rituals real and distinguishes the festival culture from everyday life—it reinforces history," said Nan Rothschild, an archaeologist at Barnard College in New York.
Many foods are considered delicacies, not for their taste, but for their medicinal effects. In East Asian markets not only can just about every creature be found—domestic, wild, and endangered—but almost every body part also makes it to the supermarket shelf.
According to numerous legends, organs have special properties that can be transferred if eaten. Supposedly, the penises of many animals endow the consumers with healthy sex lives, rooster testicles help women stay young, and monkey brains cure neurological ailments.
In China the penis of a bull is considered a potent aphrodisiac—the natural version of Viagra.
- "There is a symbolic link between the sexual potency of something like a bull penis and eating it,""It makes sense that people thought that if they eat some part of the animal, they will gain the attributes of that organ." Counihan said.
- For foreigners these overlapping functions are a source of disgust. "Food is food and sex is sex—for many it is unthinkable to consume body parts used for sex," Counihan said.
Many older people, from both industrialized and developing nations, remember eating the testicles, cheeks, lungs, kidneys, hearts, and livers of animals. The broad repertoire of edible animal parts emerged from a subsistence culture in which nothing was wasted. This still applies to many countries around the world where people struggle to get enough to eat.
Americans have become distant from the source of their food. Animals are rarely served whole, and innards are not considered worth marketing and have faded from the inventory of edible foods.
Adults, Babies, and Fetuses (cunt. from above)
- Eating a fetus, however, triggers a note of discord for many people. "It's taboo, it violates our sense of order and propriety. Most people eat animals that have been born. Veal horrifies many people because it is eating a baby animal—eating a fetus goes beyond," Counihan said.
- The concept of delicacy is very often related to how hard it is to get certain foods and how much they cost. To find truffles requires the cooperation of trained pigs. A nest of the swiftlet bird is an essential ingredient in "bird-nest soup"—getting to these nesting sites is quite an ordeal.
- Food is a window into culture, and in many ways our comments on what other people eat says more about us than them, Counihan said.
The concept of delicacy is very often related to how hard it is to get certain foods and how much they cost. To find truffles requires the cooperation of trained pigs. A nest of the swiftlet bird is an essential ingredient in "bird-nest soup"—getting to these nesting sites is quite an ordeal.
Food is a window into culture, and in many ways our comments on what other people eat says more about us than them, Counihan said.
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- Kutti pi (pronounced 'cootie-pie')
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- It is the first time I put a LA to an article that I originally created time itself (in another version). But there was this one very controversial decision, which questioned the relevance and the suspicion was raised, there were a Medienfake. I assume not, but the request from the Indologist R. Syed has shown that it this "court" does not know and has never heard of it. The source material is extremely thin, really can verify the broadcast and link to (not), the relevance is, therefore, IMHO not really given. If you generally get out of the current version of the part of Anglo-Indian who belongs to another article, and deletes the pov-assessments, there remains only the introduction. So at best from now to the lemma Dinah 12:48, 29 Feb. 2008 (CET)
- The statement says a Indologist m.E. not much. India is a multicultural, multiethnic and Multilanguage space. Friendly Indians from different areas that I know have often mutually surprised when they told of their state. The thin facts could also be caused by an orthographic problem. -Payton 12:56, 29 Feb. 2008 (CET)
- Keep. The court apparently a thing. There are several Google hits, videos and an interwiki. -Kungfuman 16:25, 29 Feb. 2008 (CET)
- Delete. Dinah's right. The source position has evolved over the article discussion, unfortunately, proved too thin to make reliable statements. One can be reasonably sure only that there is a court called fetal Kutti pi exists or has existed, which is eaten because of religious taboos and / or caste but only a small part of the Indian population, or was. It reaches not for an article. Maybe there are times clearer sources for a new article. Rainer Z ... 20:11, 29 Feb. 2008 (CET)
- After I found out with difficulty that the book article by R. Syed, the Dinah during the discussion included as a source and to which they had to rely heavily to the last, to do with the matter has nothing, is for Dinah a delete request, the only possible retreat.
- I do not hang in the article to which I have come only involuntarily. Write to him was a lot less effort than the endless debate. It is a marginal phenomenon (see the entry in this Slang Dictionary) I have tried from the outset to state in the disc - and in the present article. It is noteworthy as a marginal phenomenon. - Bertramz 21:59, 29 Feb. 2008 (CET)
- I do not think much of personalization in LA-discussions, but sometimes we want to stick to the truth, so there will be no totally false impression. You have in your first discussion Kutti pi as an invention and the article as "nonsense" and is linked to the TV report with reports of "Löffelbiegerei" compared. I am simply consistent, then I would like to work clean: the case of massive doubts about the relevance and verifiability I call for a cancellation. In addition I have personally asked Renate Syed, you have to do because you would have no trouble. Especially not with hasty rewrite of the article, after I have explained in the discussion that I have written to them and wait for her answer. It was clear that I see my way forward, depending on their answer do. Under the current state of knowledge and source location - yours is not better than mine - is not a separate article for Kutti pi justified. In an article on the Anglo-Indian population in India, this phenomenon can be briefly mentioned in one sentence. More is not justified as long as no other relevant sources are available. -Dinah 12:38, 1st March 2008 (CET)
- Writes but purely in the article that it is not clear whether it actually exists or is a rumor. When many people talk about it or Leave significantly, it is worth an entry, even if it does not exist. -80.218.231.61 23:02, 29 Feb. 2008 (CET)
- Dinah: You accuse me here untrue statements? This goes too far. I respond here only because I was being attacked personally.
- Distinguish between the phenomenon Kutti pi-consumption and your version of the article. 1) I have called your embellishments in the article as "nonsense". 2) There are a Kutti pi for the film, the reality is less sensational. See the link above. This also applies to the Not avail-able article. With Löffelbiegerei I have the representation of Kutti pi compared in this NG article, because it consists of a sequence of seemingly gimmicky bizarre eating habits, two sets each. Among other things, comes from a bull penis, which is eaten in China and a rat in Togo. At this rat I notice that the article is poorly researched. In Togo, no rats (rats) Consumed, but Grasscutter, In the WP, under the name Cane rats (cane rats) Can be found. In Togo and elsewhere, I have it as Agut eaten.
- Subject of reality and working properly / Renate Syed: On 22 Feb. knew you (not me) that your source has nothing to do with the topic. You'd have to remove it from the article. Instead, you have until 28 Feb. argue with this source, with individual formulations that would be in this source should not. You are (in his own words) assumed that the book I do not know. 28 Feb. I found out and informed you that the source is wrong. This is your strategy vice versa.
- Do something on any discussion page on, but here is not. A break over the weekend takes - Bertramz 20:58, 1 March 2008 (CET)
- The court is, of course, that's not a question. But to refer only to the Anglo-Indians, and know that they eat so little, seems to me not sufficient. I would prefer a more precise search - and I know that from Germany is very difficult. The English Wikipedia has a short note about this and marked as "stub", which must be edited (by the way is there said, would traditionally eat the fetus of a cat ....) .- There are but a list of articles on Wikipedia , the desirable way should be created. How is the concept would be to hire?
