People seem to be freaking out for no reason...sorry to sound insensitive but a few of those are mostly due sanitation issue which I could relate to but when ever you eat, you are ingesting lots of crap no matter how clean it appears to be...an extra hair or a piece of bone isn't going to increase it be that much...anyways...for the raw fish story, there is a way of preparing sashimi is Japan where it is done so fast that the fish is still alive after it is cut up...and it's eaten raw...also, saltwater fish is generally safe to eat raw as is beef...it's raw chicken you need to watch out for...as for food, since I come from China, a lot of the food that I have eaten would be considered odd in the US (Or any other western culture)...those include thousand year old egg (egg that has been buried and cured in ash), duck tongue, cow tongue, pig tongue, various organs including hearts, livers, kidneys, intestines, tripe and gizzards, balut, snails, rabbit, frog, shark, donkey, bison, horse, sea cucumber, sea urchin, sturgeon, quail, pheasant, goat, snake, and turtle...these foods are commonplace in China...despite the stereotype, I have not tried dog before nor do I plan on trying dog for personal reasons but I wouldn't think it's odd is someone else does...also, whenever we eat fish, it's whole with the bones and eyeballs intact...I don't see why it's so weird to eat a whole fish...