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Well, to put it in the most extreme example - if you were drinking pure formaldehyde that had an additive that made it taste just like a delicious lemonade, wou
by julio_the_squid 16y ago
Well, to put it in the most extreme example - if you were drinking pure formaldehyde that had an additive that made it taste just like a delicious lemonade, would you feel taht you had been tricked into thinking it tastes good?
Taste is supposed to identify healthy and needed substances vs. deleterious or poisonous substances, so when this is subverted artificially, it feels like a trick to me.
- chc 16y agoTaste is just a heuristic, and it's based on a definition of "healthy" that evolved in a very different environment. Your taste is as likely to be "subverted" naturally as artificially. For example, strawberries taste much better than kale, but they're not really better for you — just sweeter.
- robak 16y agoI don't think you know how strawberries really taste like, if you never ate them outside US... the same goes for Western Europe