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"raised to enjoy the taste/texture of meat" Humans have evolved to enjoy the taste/texture/smell of cooked meat
by UltraSane 1y ago
"raised to enjoy the taste/texture of meat"
Humans have evolved to enjoy the taste/texture/smell of cooked meat
- xeromal 1y agoYeah, their comment gave me a chuckle. lol
- bartread 1y agoYeah. HN doesn't really have a sense of humour, which I used to find frustrating, but which (having now spent a lot more time on other forums, like Reddit), I fully appreciate the wisdom of. I am, along certain axes, a big fan of DIY forums like the r/DIYUK subreddit, and it pisses me off to no end that when anybody asks a serious question looking for serious help the top 5 comments will, as like as not, be bullshit, cheap, obvious, "funny" one-liners from people whose sense of humour has never evolved beyond the playground and that contain zero useful information. I've even considered volunteering as a mod on that particular sub just so I can delete all of these "humorous" comments so that the actual useful information makes it to the top of the page. So, yeah, I've come around to the HN point of view on humour. But, nevertheless, like you, I found this funny.
- bluebarbet 1y agoSlashdot's system was best. No upvoting, certainly no downvoting, just a small vocabulary of tags: "informative", "insightful", "irrelevant", etc. And of course "funny". That way you can literally turn the humor off!
- jebarker 1y agoIf you speak with vegetarians/vegans who have been raised that way and never eaten meat you will find many that are repulsed by it. Nurture seems to be able to override nature here and, as far as I’m aware, there’s no strong evidence that we’re born with an inherent taste for meat, we’re just born with bodies that need certain nutrients that are easily obtained from meat but can be found elsewhere.
- UltraSane 1y agoI would be willing to bet if a lifelong vegan hadn't eaten in days and smelled a freshly cooked bacon cheeseburger they would start salivating. And I bet they would find it delicious if they ate it.
- saagarjha 1y agoI think it would be more like the reaction a "normal" meat eater would have when presented with a strange food, like snails, or grasshoppers. You'd probably eat it in desperation but I don't think it would register as food.
- UltraSane 1y agoNo. Humans have actually evolved to find the smell and taste of COOKED meat to be delicious because it is so energy and nutrition dense eating it gave a huge evolutionary advantage to people who ate it.
- saagarjha 1y agoJust because something is evolutionarily advantageous doesn't mean everyone has to like it. Otherwise ace people would not exist at all…
- UltraSane 1y agoThis is the same kind of hardwired response that makes humans find the smell of rotten things disgusting.
- saagarjha 1y agoI assure you that many vegan/vegetarian people feel the same way about meat. It is inherently repulsive because they have no experience with it or have lost its taste. This isn’t something that just reactivates because they’re hungry; you’d have to reacclimate them to meat before it will go away.