#(humans being gd weird is one of the main reasons i still consider myself a humanist)

[an-organized-confusion]

I just watched a fun “How To Cook That” episode... (I love me my food science.)

Got me riffing off of that with the co-conspirator (which made me think of Remus and Logan at points and Roman feeling insulted... look, I like the idea of Remus being a culinary genius about fermented food):

Me: anne getting dave to try carbonated milk amused me - esp w/ comments like these

OP: Dave: "That's just wrong!" 🤢 Also Dave: *tries it again*

one of the responses: Well, human nature is weird. Ever smelled something gross, did you take a deeper sniff? You just want to take another bite, another smell, just to see if it really was that bad.

if remus embodies many impulses, that is certainly one of them given that i could probably mentally connect the flavor of carbonated milk to like a yogurt drink i may be able to brace myself for that experience. but i'm not surprised that a lot of people just went "yeah... fuck that. this tastes too much like off milk. i can't override BAD FOOD IS BAD ALERT." i would be curious if the sensory exp would be made better or worse if someone added some flavorings to it. that's like the olfactory/gustatory equivalent of rubbernecking

but then again there's an entire realm of food where it's basically "purposely allow this product to go bad under controlled conditions" like for real - cheese is THE BOMB but it smells fuck awful just imagining the first humans to discover and popularize cheese

Him: probably had no sense of smell

Me: pffft - maybe but i have to stress the popularize part of the equation here

Him: yea, exactly "you gotta try this" "What smell? The taste is amazing!"

Me: *wheezes*

Him: *referring to the texture the entire time*

Me: i could say they may also appreciate the savoriness, saltiness, and richness as well a touch of tanginess/sourness as well

Him: i mean given how much smell is incorporated into taste

Me: since those details aren't depending on olfactory/smell [as much] might not be catching all the sulfurous pungent VOCs that is a hallmark to cheeses that give them that "this food has gone bad / you're about to eat someone's toes" smell

Him: maybe they thought toes were a delicacy you don't know their kinks, don't you shame them

Me: hey i aint meaning to kink shame here jasmine [tHE FLOWER] has [an extremely tiny] touch of skatole in it [a principle chemical that gives poop it’s smell]. everything is biochemically connected in wondrous ways

Him: that was a poor time to think of the disney princess

Me: PFftr *hacks up lung laughing*

Him: *new goal achieved*

#sanders sides #remus sanders #logan sanders #roman sanders #squick/ #food/ #(in chemistry - context and concentration is everything) #(skatole smells floral at tiny concentrations but beyond that pt it'll smell like shit) #(you can pry cheese and sourdough from my cold dead hands okay) #(to say absolutely nothing abt the realm of humans being weird abt food - deliberately eating spicy food) #(nature: i don't want ruminant and other mammals grinding up my seeds so i can proliferate) #(nature: *makes chili peppers hurt to eat*) #(humans: THAT'S SOME GOOD SHIT.) #(humans being gd weird is one of the main reasons i still consider myself a humanist)