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> Children notoriously prefer prepackaged industrially processed food over whole foods prepared with care and love. Nearly all people do, food scientists are r

> Children notoriously prefer prepackaged industrially processed food over whole foods prepared with care and love. Nearly all people do, food scientists are really damn good at their job. It isn't even that the stuff tastes better, it just triggers more of the pleasure centers in the brain and causes people to want more. No one eats an entire bag of doritos because they taste better than a good steak.

bigstrat2003 2y ago
> It isn't even that the stuff tastes better, it just triggers more of the pleasure centers in the brain... What exactly do you think "tastes better" means? If it's triggering more of the pleasure centers of the brain, then it tastes better.
- com2kid 2y ago
  This is trivial to prove false. During fine dining, a meal may consist of small portions that even when added up together total less calories than a large bag of theater popcorn which many people are quite capable of going through. No one will argue that the popcorn taste "better". Simply put the popcorn is less satiating but more addictive to eat. Meanwhile the fine dining meal, if done well, will be incredibly satiating and not leave one wanting for more. Hyper-palitability is a thing. There are foods that are hard to stop eating (e.g. potato chips), and that do not fill people up no matter the caloric content. Starbucks frappes are another example. They can easily have over 1000 calories, barely be satiating, and yet people desire them again and again. I hope no one claims frappes or potato chips are the best tasting foods in the world. But they are both addictive as hell to consume.
renewiltord 2y ago
That’s something I hate about other people. They just type out comments. I prefer to trigger the control centers of my brain to cause movement of my peripheral actuators to depress buttons on a purpose built device to compose textual information for transfer across the Internet.

bigstrat2003 2y ago

> It isn't even that the stuff tastes better, it just triggers more of the pleasure centers in the brain... What exactly do you think "tastes better" means? If it's triggering more of the pleasure centers of the brain, then it tastes better.

com2kid 2y ago
This is trivial to prove false. During fine dining, a meal may consist of small portions that even when added up together total less calories than a large bag of theater popcorn which many people are quite capable of going through. No one will argue that the popcorn taste "better". Simply put the popcorn is less satiating but more addictive to eat. Meanwhile the fine dining meal, if done well, will be incredibly satiating and not leave one wanting for more. Hyper-palitability is a thing. There are foods that are hard to stop eating (e.g. potato chips), and that do not fill people up no matter the caloric content. Starbucks frappes are another example. They can easily have over 1000 calories, barely be satiating, and yet people desire them again and again. I hope no one claims frappes or potato chips are the best tasting foods in the world. But they are both addictive as hell to consume.

renewiltord 2y ago

That’s something I hate about other people. They just type out comments. I prefer to trigger the control centers of my brain to cause movement of my peripheral actuators to depress buttons on a purpose built device to compose textual information for transfer across the Internet.