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by pengaru 1382 days ago
It's a sort of arms race. Unprepared plain raw organic produce is delicious, if you haven't been eating prepared food covered in salt and other seasoning for years. Once you start adulterating your food with flavor crystals, you require that stuff just to move the needle.

A flavor tolerance develops, similar to drug tolerance.

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> Unprepared plain raw organic produce is delicious

Yeah, although I doubt it was as delicious before modern farming. Or even if it was, we didn't have most of it.

But an animal roasted over a fire is equally as delicious; just ask an Alone contestant. One woman ate the gut contents of a rabbit and said it was one of the best things she'd ever eaten.

Hunger is the best condiment, as the saying goes.