thebaconsandwichofregret:

smiththeteacher:

quoth-the-ravenclaw:

alyxpanics:

littleshopofhoruss:

generalbriefing:

doctorwhoshotya:

pretty much every vegetable you hated as a little kid would taste better if you roasted it with salt and olive oil instead of boiling it

The truth shall set you free

also sometimes if you just try it again with an adult palate because this is also a developmental issue little children are far more sensitive to bitter and metallic flavors it’s an evolutionary defense against poison

reblogging for science and culinary advice.

shit who the fuck was trying to poison their kids so much that we evolved into a species that kids need a mechanism against poison?????

Richard III

I really like it when the scientific and historical / literary sides of Tumblr come together.

No one tries poisoning their kids, but when we were hunter gatherers babies were around all kinds of plants and one of the ways little kids explore the world is to put things in their mouths. Seriously, ask your mother if you ever swallowed a penny as a baby, I garuentee you did.

Babies with sensitive pallets lived because they’d put something dangerous in their mouth and go “ew” and spit it out, babies with less sensitive pallets died. Sensitive pallet in infancy becomes the dominant trait. Then they grow up, times are hard, food is scarce, the people who didn’t grow out of a sensitive pallet are more likely to starve than the people who now have a less sensitive one and can happily eat a wider range of foods.

Fast forward a couple of thousand years: small children scream bloody murder when fed vegetables then grow up to be the weirdos who like olives.

*palate