) and a gratis case of early-onset regret for the gastronomic sin I was about to commit.
But one vendor is taking things to another gastronomic level, serving guinea pigs as a cold dessert.
Nor were the Scots the first to have the brainwave of putting hideous offal in a stomach and then eating it: some gastronomic historians argue that an ur-Haggis was created by the Romans in order to feed their troops.
The Dessert Kitchen, a gastronomic haven for outlandish pudding lovers, has created a confusing, yet equally appetising, sugary version of the classic dish that has earned its place at the top of the Insta-food leader board.
The tour, From Bark to Bottle, leads participants on an 11-day trip through Spain's cork trail to discover the lives of the harvesters, the forest's biodiversity and the cultural and gastronomic heritage of the area — in essence, the cork's path from tree to wine.
But there is one last bastion of gastronomic independence: breakfast.
No longer were rare delicacies the main attraction, and so maybe gastronomic enthusiasm has been dampened slightly.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping kicked off his trip to France Tuesday with a selection of Beaujolais wine, saucisson and cheese shortly after arriving in Lyon, the country's gastronomic capital.
