What is the advantage to having tastebuds?

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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    catefrances wrote:
    oh no jeanie straight out of the shell. mmmm. just feeling that little sucker slide down my throat. love it!!! :D

    :eek: Yup!! All yours cate!! I can think of things I'd rather swallow!!! :p
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Ahnimus wrote:
    It's definitely taste with peas. Mushrooms I don't like the taste or the texture.

    So I think it's different for all of us, probably based on exposure, learned behaviour and body chemicals. What do you think?

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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Jeanie wrote:
    So I think it's different for all of us, probably based on exposure, learned behaviour and body chemicals. What do you think?

    http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761576499/Taste.html

    Sounds right, but I was wondering how that fits into evolution....
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeanie wrote:
    :eek: Yup!! All yours cate!! I can think of things I'd rather swallow!!! :p


    well i guarantee if it ends up at the back of my throat, chances are, its gonna get swallowed. :D:p
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  • ClimberInOz
    ClimberInOz Posts: 216
    There was some research that came out a couple of years ago suggesting that our taste buds are highly inclined to detect and produce the relevant body responses to make us like lipids (fats).

    I would imagine that the collective favorites of our taste buds have been tuned over time to make us like calories. However the variation in what people like is probably due to genetic differences and the influence of conditioning over time.

    Personally, I think it's all about the chocolate...
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    catefrances wrote:
    well i guarantee if it ends up at the back of my throat, chances are, its gonna get swallowed. :D:p

    This reminds me of a gabbly conversation some of us had one friday night. :D

    Surprisingly enough, this tends to be the case for most of us. ;)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Sounds right, but I was wondering how that fits into evolution....

    Well like I said before humans would taste the things around them. Probably guided by smell which seems to be a big factor in taste. If it tasted ok and the taster survived then it was ok to eat. And as we have evolved we have expanded that repertoire. And as we crossed the seas and learned more about each other we expanded that again.
    I think what we have today is a bit different in that there are so many things in our food now that are there simply to enhance flavor or to preserve or simply because we have a glut of something on the market and there's money to made hiding it in the food we eat.
    That probably sounds dumb, but I was reading somewhere recently about corn starch or was it corn sugar and what a massive contributor it is to the stock market and how manufacturers are adding it to so much of our foods simply so they can make money. I don't think it has any nutrional merit. So it's all about the money. Let's face it there is so much unknown stuff in processed foods we'd never eat it if we really knew the process and could smell it as it was being made before we got to see the end product.

    Perhaps then as our bodies ingest things and they become part of the chemical reaction of digestion our bodies then learn to look for this taste again?

    edit: Geez ryan I don't know! You're really smart about these things surely you have a theory? :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    catefrances wrote:
    well i guarantee if it ends up at the back of my throat, chances are, its gonna get swallowed. :D:p

    except your toothbrush right? ;):D
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  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Shouldn't we find vegetables and stuff far tastier than salt and lard?

    i do
  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    catefrances wrote:
    well i guarantee if it ends up at the back of my throat, chances are, its gonna get swallowed. :D:p


    i am not even going to touch this one, WAY too easy ;)
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    i know i dont like liver.
    thank goodness to me it tastes horrible.

    if i could not taste chinese foods, fruits, vegies
    and water with lemon added i think id be quite bummed out.

    i like alot of other yummy dishes.
    my tastebuds rock.

    oh and don't forget, women.
    in this case my tastebuds have just about totally forgotten.
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    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    chadwick wrote:
    i know i dont like liver.
    thank goodness to me it tastes horrible.

    if i could not taste chinese foods, fruits, vegies
    and water with lemon added i think id be quite bummed out.

    i like alot of other yummy dishes.
    my tastebuds rock.

    oh and don't forget, women.
    in this case my tastebuds have just about totally forgotten.

    Not forgotten chaddles, just resting! ;):)
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  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    chadwick wrote:
    i know i dont like liver.
    thank goodness to me it tastes horrible.

    if i could not taste chinese foods, fruits, vegies
    and water with lemon added i think id be quite bummed out.

    i like alot of other yummy dishes.
    my tastebuds rock.

    oh and don't forget, women.
    in this case my tastebuds have just about totally forgotten.

    the Seafood Diet?
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    I'm an aspiring vagitarian... vegetables are great to munch on too...
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeanie wrote:
    except your toothbrush right? ;):D

    perhaps i should have said, so long as it isn't attached to anything else. :D;):p
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    catefrances wrote:
    perhaps i should have said, so long as it isn't attached to anything else. :D

    What? :rolleyes: Like your hand?? ;):D
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Jeanie wrote:
    Not forgotten chaddles, just resting! ;):)

    yes, i guess that is it, resting.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Bu2 wrote:
    the Seafood Diet?

    i was thinking about the honey diet.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    chadwick wrote:
    yes, i guess that is it, resting.

    :) That's what I tell myself! :)
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeanie wrote:
    What? :rolleyes: Like your hand?? ;)


    well, what do you hold your toothbrush with jeanie? ;):D:p
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