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A lot of this has to do with the quality of your palette. Some people are simply amazingly sensitive (I think Gladwell has a chapter in Blink about such people)
by willarson 19y ago
A lot of this has to do with the quality of your palette. Some people are simply amazingly sensitive (I think Gladwell has a chapter in Blink about such people), and others are... not. I tend to group myself into the second category. Then again, I think the different between the sodas is pretty substantial, but I live in North Carolina, and apparently we lead the nation in soda consumption (55 gallons per year per capita... I quit drinking the stuff for new years :p ).
- ralph 19y agoYou could be right about the palette. Mine's pretty poor in terms of being a bon viveur but I was one of those annoyingly fussy eaters as a kid. However, perhaps more relevant is that I've lived in a household for some years where one member is sensitive to various airborne chemicals. Consequently, the house is kept relatively free of them, e.g. few new items, or new items are off-gassed for a while before moving into the main living areas. Sounds crackpot, I know, but the end result has been to make me detect these now unusual items, e.g. if a newspaper is somewhere in this area of the house. I guess my tolerence levels have come down as my exposure has dropped. There's an awful lot of crap floating around these days. Perhaps that's why country folk visiting the city can take a dislike; "All the noise and commotion gave me a headache". Or what they breathed in? Good idea to give up drinking the stuff. I'd like to but find it hard to drop the caffeine first thing in the morning. Coffee's too much of a kick and more of a slippery slope.