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Because around here you may blend in with the snowbanks.Why can't we wear white after Labor day?
Chris
Because around here you may blend in with the snowbanks.Why can't we wear white after Labor day?
My wife is a mid-northern Yankee. She's learned to love all kinds or new southern thangs.just a fun thread to give us something to think and talk about ,
so here is the question : can a person be conditioned to like a food they otherwise wouldn't eat ? i have had some fun with the answers i have gotten from friends with this simple seeming question , its not as a benin question as it might seem to be
one tiny morsel and i know it's in there with eyes closed.Years ago I worked with some Inuit students from Alaska. I asked them as a people what they were most proud of. Quickly and unanimously they said, “We can eat anything.” I’ve never forgotten that. I often wonder if they can eat cilantro because I can’t stomach that stuff.
Cilantro tastes like soap to me.
John
That isn't conditioning though, that is just sensory appeal. Conditioning is behavior that is learned over time. Think like what parents do with a lot of kids when they don't like a certain food that is good for them...If you don't eat those brussels sprouts you won't get dessert or if you clean all the squash off your plate you can stay up a half hour later etc. Those types of things never got me to like certain foods growing up although sometimes I would suffer through eating them, or not.i think our taste is conditioned , in my opinion what influnces our taste is (1) our ears ( 2 ) our eyes ( 3) our noses and finally our mouth ....our taste is often influnced by what is said by others ( good or bad ), our sight has a huge influnce on what we perceive as tasteing good or bad
our noses tell us flat out if we want to taste something or not ,
and our mouths have the last word on the food in question not only by taste but also by texture
Hmmm---Agree with some of that:Five things immediately come to mind... calamari (especially the heads), avacado, frog legs, lamb and Rocky Mountain oysters.
Come visit sometime if you want to be proven wrong. DougE might just walk off and shut up (maybe), but there ain't no smoothing things over with a "Yes dear". I just ain't wired that way.Any male over 30 and married knows dang well what conditioning is all about. Even if she is dead wrong and getting testy. You'll say yes dear! Prove me wrong!
BBQBRETT : aah but it can be a form of conditioning TV ads do it all the time , they tell you this is the best burger ever and hearing that over and over and over you start to believe it ,same with how they show you that beautiful burger , they go to great lenghts to show you the perfect tomatoes and pickles and such , your friend tell you how great thefood smells at the new place in town ,its not just sensory perception ...its conditioning !!
Cilantro tastes like soap to me. I know, because I had plenty or that stuffed into my mouth growing up. With my mouth. . .My friends called me Ivory!
John
That's actually a common theme. It's genetic. Remember tasting litmus paper in school? Some people could taste sour, and others couldn't taste anything? Same with cilantro. Some, like me, taste a spicy herb, others taste soap. Sorry for the soap crowd.Cilantro tastes like soap to me. I know, because I had plenty or that stuffed into my mouth growing up. With my mouth. . .My friends called me Ivory!
John
Good for you. After almost 40 years with my wife. I can say otherwise. Saying yes dear puts the napalm back in the fighter while you discuss options.Come visit sometime if you want to be proven wrong. DougE might just walk off and shut up (maybe), but there ain't no smoothing things over with a "Yes dear". I just ain't wired that way.
Bear, this thread got me thinking. Any foods you (all military people here) military guys had that you hated but came around to look forward to?Hmmm, I would say I could be conditioned to like something that I never had before.
However if it's something I already don't like, I could not be conditioned to like it---Ever.
Bear
Not really for me, most things I hated I still hate. Kind of with Lamb I suppose. I swore id never eat it again after having to eat it a lot on a few deployments. But I am ok with it now. I wouldn’t say I look forward to it though!Bear, this thread got me thinking. Any foods you (all military people here) military guys had that you hated but came around to look forward to?
The mess hall food at my Company was so bad that we looked forward to when we were in the field, and getting our almost daily C-rats.Bear, this thread got me thinking. Any foods you (all military people here) military guys had that you hated but came around to look forward to?