I think it would generally work fine to have guests from outside of north america. Most of them are exposed to a much wider variety of food/meat choices to begin with. The exception being the British, who are as bad as Americans

You go to an American super market, and your meat choices are cow, pig, chicken or turkey. If you look a bit and if it's fancier, you can find some veal, maybe some buffalo, quail, duck, or cornish hens. But the average american is exposed to eating cow, pig, chicken or turkey. Anything more exotic than that is strange - horse meat is normal in europe, most americans couldn't stomach eating horse meat, because that's dog food and horse are nice creatures you ride. But go into a european super market, you'll find horse, goat, ostrich, emu, antelope, venison, and various other african species, etc.

I'll admit to finding it vaguely annoying when I have friends that are picky eaters, but for the most part I know that it's a product of how they grew up. I feel really really sorry for them if we go to an asian restaurant and all they can do is order fried rice, because they know they like that. If I'm going out with those friends, I will go to a burger joint or something like that and get a salad. If I'm having them over, I'll order pizzas or I'll make spaghetti or I'll put the grill on and bbq some meat & burgers. My sister's daughter told me a month or so ago "My Mommy says you only know how to make spaghetti, but you're really good at that" and that's because - my sister & daughter = picky eaters, they get spaghetti with a meat sauce - they like it, it's easy for me to make and they can't annoy me too much by being picky with it. I will say that my sister's 8 year old who can be picky, does eat a lot of vegetables and blue cheese and such like that, that I wouldn't have touched when I was 8.

I have other friends that I know will eat anything that I eat, and we go to various ethnic restaurants all the time and I'll happily cook for them and enjoy the fact that they appreciate it. But they do tend to be foreign born or have foreign parents or to have done a lot of traveling.

Now my bf would claim I'm a picky eater, but it's more of a - there are times when I don't think it's worth the calories to eat something because I just don't like it that much and there are basic bits of food sanitation that I like to observe that he's pretty cavalier about. And I figure since he's a bf, I don't have to be polite anymore.