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"When we were first introduced to white man's food, everything tasted bad to us... we would smell their cooking and it did not smell good to us." In Iñupiaq, terms for foreign fare were descriptive and disapproving: beans were niliġuaq, a thing that makes you fart; oatmeal was siġri, or dandruff; mustard was baby shit, and the word for bananas, usuuŋnaq, meant "like a penis".