Throughout this unit each text had a different message that made them all interesting to read in their own way. In the first text “food product design”, the message was to help inform people about how food is made and why certain ways it is made can cause it to be bad for you. The second text “The Yuckiest Food in the Amazon”, was about how just how certain food looks our how it is made can cause you to not want to try it. The last text “Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market” was a poem that used symbolism to get the point across. “Food product design” was the first text i had to read in this unit. It was quite interesting and taught me a lot about how food is made and what makes certain food taste the way it does. “The aroma of a food can be responsible for as much as 90 percent of its flavor.” I always thought that the taste was what was most responsible for the flavor…show more content… “We are talking about a beverage fermented with human saliva. Achuar women chew boiled manioc into the desired mashed-potato texture, and then spit-spray the contents of their bulging cheeks out into the chicha urn. While I know that, percentage-wise, we’re talking a tiny fraction of the mixture, I’m having difficulty embracing the idea.” She wanted to be able to try different food from other cultures, but once she knew how it was made it was making her second guess herself. She learned from this experience and realized that this is the reason that some people are not able to make themselves try something simply because it doesn't look good. She was determined to eat from another culture but the things they were trying to have her eat she was having a hard time getting herself to eat it. “I have to clean my plate. I must force apart the gristly abomination with my teeth, work my tongue into its fissures and slimy orifices, extract anything vaguely chewable, and swallow
