Guns Grems and steel chapter 5 response.

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"These days you can travel to just about any country in the world and find a McDonald’s or a Pizza Hut. Not that you’d want to, but you could. We live in a highly diversified global economy, and the accessibility of a wide variety of foods is consistent across most parts of the planet. However, this was not always true. In the recent past the part of the world you lived in would dictate what foods were available in your diet. According to the table on page 100 - and your general knowledge about the world - what part of the world would you have wanted to live on if you were alive 1,000 years ago?" page 100 in Guns Germs and Steel Written by Jared Diamond.

My Response:

Well, for me this was an extremely hard decision. My first choice was Andes and Amazonia. This immediately stood out to me because it reminded me of Andes mints. But i soon realized that 1000 years ago, those defiantly did not exist. DANG! I also realized that they eat guinea pig and llama. First of all, guinea pigs are pets, NOT FOOD, and they smell bad, but then again, what animal does not? But second, llamas spit at you and are mean, so i understand how people could get mad enough to eat them, but i can't see llama tasting too great. Also, a bonus was that here they had potato, but i decided it wouldn't have been worth the llama thing.

Next i thought that Mesomerica because they have corn and beans. Two of which don't taste bad at all and i quite like them both. But the only animal the ate was turkey. I do not like turkey and thanksgiving is not an exception. Yea, the corn and beans would be good, but not worth it to have to eat the turkey. I also thought i could live here and be vegetarian, but naww. It would be nearly impossible for me to never eat meat. I think i would die without meat. (not literally)

My final decision where i would want to live because they had the best food would be China. Come on, they have rice! I can live with rice even though i am not chinese. I don't know if i can eat it every-night like Krista, but i could get used to it. Also, china had pork. I know i like pork and i could basically live on it. Pork and rice. Thats all id need. But the also eat silkworms, worms are not for me to eat, and millet, millet sounds like that stuff you feed to birds. I think i would stay away from the worms and millet and stick to pork and rice. But based on food, i would have liked to live in China 1000 years ago.