Crispy fried tofu can arguably be better than meat.
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Would the quiz have been less effective if all the questions had been asked in the same leading manner? Or better yet in a more standard neutral format that just listed items and asked participants to put it on a scale from appetizing to unappetizing?
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It’s definitely a great delivery system for sauces and doesn’t dry out like crispy fried meats can be.
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Came across this after reading this… I genuinely baffled how someone is able to survive on a diet like this.
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Sure, it could be because the study creators have their own internal biases, or it could be that, because they’ve already been researching this, they know that very few people across a variety of cultures across the world have a pronounced disgust towards sausages (even when called a “wad of beef in an intestinal casing”), whereas many more do towards whole fish.
Do you know of cultures, besides those who reject meat or certain animals as a whole, who stereotypically have a disgust towards sausages and hamburgers, or are you just thinking they ought to?
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Ankh-LessPork?
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I think a drawback of this type (agree/disagree) of test is that they elicit reactions by graduated statements from the bland to the strong.
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What an odd way to pose that question, I don’t see what that has to do with what I wrote OR with the quiz.
I don’t know anyone of any culture who would not be at least slightly disgusted by finding human hair in their food, but that’s one of the questions, so clearly that’s not a criteria of the questions being included.
Are you arguing that there is no cultural bias evident in the framing of the quiz questions? Or do you just think people ought not to discuss it?
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I think there are definitely cultural biases to disgust itself (certainly simply due to exposure to the foods). I think you’ll find more people disgusted by raw fish or tripe in the US than elsewhere, more people disgusted by cheese in East Asian countries, more people disgusted by Jello anywhere outside the US… But that doesn’t mean that I think the study itself has a cultural bias. Rather, they’re trying to uncover more details about disgust itself. And to do that they need to ask about foods that some people find disgusting, even if there are other people who love that food.
But there’s no point in asking about foods that aren’t considered disgusting by large swaths of people. That’s why I asked whether there are many people who find hamburgers disgusting, outside of non-meat/beef eaters. The study shouldn’t ask about hamburgers simply to provide some kind of “balance” if they have no evidence that hamburgers widely provoke disgust.
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Thanks for clarifying. I just took the quiz again to refresh my memory. I still think there is a cultural bias in the framing of some of the questions (e.g., “I feel nauseated if served a whole fish,” versus, “I would not mind eating a salad which is no longer crisp.”) but I concede the point that it needn’t include questions specifically about processed meat if they’ve already covered the “animal flesh” category of disgust in other ways.
My food disgust rating is low, highest in the “human contaminants” area, but when salad greens get that slimy goo on them from being kept too long, it roils my stomach. Yet the way the questions are asked, that’s not really shown in my results, because I really don’t mind too much eating a salad that’s no longer quite crisp. 
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