>Letting go of attachment is a >very important Buddhist principle. >So the practice of eating >only what is given to >you works within that, especially >in a Buddhist country where >living simply is not only >seen as a good in >itself but is something that >many people do for at >least a part of their >lives.
On a semi-related note...
I remember reading somewhere that Buddhist monks have to accept whatever is given to them during their begging rounds. There was an anecdote about a monk who ate a leper's thumb that fell in his begging bowl, and the Buddha himself supposedly died from food poisoning--either from poisonous mushrooms or bad meat.
---------------------------------------- Densetsu no hitokiri, Himura Battousai.