Narrow food tastes and foreign cultures

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Is it just me, or is it when an autistic person gets involved with a foreign culture, we can often come across as very stubborn with regards to food?

For example, I have an interested in Japanese culture, and I've tried lots of stuff. Nevertheless, my food tastes are very narrow and there are many Japanese things I would not eat, like green-tea flavored candy--as I will only drink green tea hot. I am also not particularly fond of fried octopus snacks. It makes me come across as just stubborn, I think.

There is stuff I like, though: Salmon rolls and nigiri, cooked eel, soda-flavored candy (my favorite flavor!), wasabi (both pasty and dusty), curried rice, plus other stuff.

I think that this is perfectly normal. While there is a good deal of 'foreign culture' stuff that I like, every culture has stuff that many people find repugnant irregardless of whether they are from that culture or from outside of it. Many Scandinavians disdain lutefisk and surstromming, many Scots dislike haggis, many Chinese hate century eggs and birdsnest soup, and as an American I can say that I will forever dodge rocky mountain oysters and scrapple. --Also I spent a good bit of time in Maine, and I avoid seafood due to the fact that I am violently allergic to it.

I think maybe for some it's because they don't actually eat a lot of foods anyway, for whatever reason (texture etc). I have a very limited amount of foods that I will eat, and that eliminates pretty much every unusual food, and that'll be the same for plenty of others.

Honestly, out of the things you've mentioned, I actually wouldn't mind trying haggis, prairie oysters, or scrapple. Lutefisk or century eggs on the other hand, I don't think I could handle. As for surströmming, it doesn't really sound that bad aside from the smell. If the smell puts me off, then I won't eat it.