People have been in a flap over the whole bird plucking and eating incident on the Montreal Metro. Or at least that's what it looked like a young woman was doing in a video taken earlier this month that has since gone viral.
According to an article in Global, the woman has finally outed herself as Christina David, a former native of Nunavut. In shaky footage, David is shown hunched over a plastic bag on the subway, plucking what appears to be a bird. Passengers variously cover their mouths in disgust, or get up and walk to the next carriage.
In David's defence, she claims she was just so excited she began her meal prep on the way home in the method her culture dictates.
“I was so happy that I didn’t care where I was at the moment but all i (sic) have to say is that i aint crazy lol thats all. It’s not like we get to eat our country food everyday,” she wrote on Facebook.
No, she was not eating the bird, nor was it alive at the time of plucking. Still, it shocked many people who are clearly accustomed to simply picking up their chicken breasts in neat styrofoam packs from their local supermarket.
David can't see what all the fuss was over. Indeed, had she been scarfing a KFC on the Metro, no one would have batted an eyelid.
A case of cultural mores, or more like wrong time and place?
Most sensible adults refuse to eat this food. So why do we feed it to our young?
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