new concept english 3 的第23篇课文？

People become quite illogical when they
try to decide what can be eaten and what
cannot be eaten. If you lived in the
Mediterranean, for instance, you would
consider octopus a great delicacy.You
would not be able to understand why
some people find it repulsive. On the
other hand, your stomach would turn at
the idea of frying potatoes in animal fat--
the normally accepted practice in many
northern countries. The sad truth is that
most of us have been brought up to eat
certain foods and we stick to them all our
lives.
No creature has received more praise
and abuse than the common garden snail.
Cooked in wine, snails are a great luxury in various parts of the world. There
are countless people who, ever since their early years, have learned to associate
snails with food. My friend, Robert, lives in a country where snails are despised.
As his flat is in a large town, he has no garden of his own