The prohibition against eating blood (and things strangled which still have the blood in them) seems more than cultural, as it predates Moses. Read the first for verses of Gen. 9
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1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.[a] 2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
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So you have a situation where you can eat pork and shrimp, but you can't eat blood. Then under Moses some practices are prohibited that were originally OK, like not marrying your half sister or eating pork, and the prohibition against consuming blood is the same, as in Deut. 12:14-15
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15 “However, you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike. 16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.
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And then we have it in the NT as well.
When I was in South Africa I avoided some tasty Malay food when I thought Christians were around. The people I was with wouldn't eat it because it was Halal, i.e. meat prepared under a Muslim cleric. I didn't see the difference between eating that and eating something Kosher, and I thought the people were being inconsistant, but so as not to offend them I only ate the stuff when they weren't around. But blood seems not to fit into that category.
Food for thought (sorry, couldn't resist).