Writer's Block: Breaking the food chain
Sep. 27th, 2010 12:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I wouldn't. One person's meat is another person's poison (or perhaps poisson), after all. Food is a matter of taste, and of TAST-R genes, and we can't help our genetics and chemistry. If I must pick one, then let it be the sorts of fake, chemical-filled mayonnaise substitutes that bear the label 'salad dressing' because they can't legally call it mayo. That crap is nasty, yo.
If, however, I could instead merely ban one particular food from ever appearing in a room while I'm occupying it, it would be shrimp. The smell alone is enough to make me gag, and lately there have been 'stealth shrimp' appearing in things that don't advertise it. While I know intellectually that it can't possibly smell like that to the people who are eating it, that this is some variation in body chemistry that makes the little pink bottom-feeders absolutely nauseating for me and perfectly edible to other people, that doesn't make watching other people put them in their mouths voluntarily any easier.
I wouldn't. One person's meat is another person's poison (or perhaps poisson), after all. Food is a matter of taste, and of TAST-R genes, and we can't help our genetics and chemistry. If I must pick one, then let it be the sorts of fake, chemical-filled mayonnaise substitutes that bear the label 'salad dressing' because they can't legally call it mayo. That crap is nasty, yo.
If, however, I could instead merely ban one particular food from ever appearing in a room while I'm occupying it, it would be shrimp. The smell alone is enough to make me gag, and lately there have been 'stealth shrimp' appearing in things that don't advertise it. While I know intellectually that it can't possibly smell like that to the people who are eating it, that this is some variation in body chemistry that makes the little pink bottom-feeders absolutely nauseating for me and perfectly edible to other people, that doesn't make watching other people put them in their mouths voluntarily any easier.
