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by rendaw 1301 days ago
> less developed palates

You're already looking down on people who taste things differently than you do.

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Is it really 'looking down on'? If someone has a slower car (than them), would it be the same? I know i have a 'less developed palate', than many as i like the same things day after day after day, then i change something and remain the same again. I occasionally enjoy a vindaloo and other indian food. I know people that chop and change and cook and experiment, and they can tell immediately if I've under-salted a pasta or over-cooked some vegetable. To some of us, food is fuel, and that's it. I fear people nowadays take any form of comparison as an insult.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UDIHrX-Jp2E

Right, it's conflating development stage with a value judgement thereon.

Someone else might acknowledge that increased complexity is typically an indicator of a later development stage, while preferring or finding moral goodness in an earlier stage of development, or having no value judgement on it at all.

Meh. I don't know how I'm supposed to phrase that in a way which won't offend, but my gut is you don't care and you're just being needlessly argumentative and annoying.

Let's go with "people who've had less opportunity to try novel ingredients and flavors". Does that work for you rendaw?