Maybe we could use it to catch herring. 🙂
Of course there’s such a thing as heimish’e ta’am. It’s the same idea as Persians liking Persian food and Hungarians liking Hungarian food, and the fact that nobody’s cholent is as good as my mother’s (except my wife’s, if she’s reading this). There’s a huge cultural and emotional aspect to food that has nothing to do with how Hashem made our taste buds (although that’s part of it as well).