tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31708984669147323.post1336872764685114169..comments2023-10-21T05:27:03.492-07:00Comments on Sky Jack Morgan: Grow the fuck Up,Sky Jack Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274460430707829174noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31708984669147323.post-41332537594334783922012-04-20T04:06:38.655-07:002012-04-20T04:06:38.655-07:00I love you anon. I lived in Japan and enjoyed bein...I love you anon. I lived in Japan and enjoyed being ripped from my comfort zone in regards to food. I've eaten several different insects and animals not on the Westerner's menu. I regularly eat tree bark in the form of lapacho; I drink it and cook with it. I can't say I've eaten a lump of clay, but there is a delightful clay taste in many wines and other drinks. I like it all because it is all interesting to me. It isn't like I put something in my mouth and I go "yum, this is amazing!" every time, but I do always say "hmmm" because I enjoy flavor analysis. <br /><br />Since I wrote this, my girlfriend is now my wife, and she likes olives now. I have earned my first level sommelier certificate. We own a restaurant and wine bar together. I talk about tastes and flavors and tolerances every day with industry professionals and restaurant guests. If we were all snowflakes who taste things totally differently, we wouldn't be able to blind taste wine and arrive at the same conclusion. We wouldn't be able to taste a dish and simultaneously know it needs cardamom. We can develop preferences, but that's all they are, and if you can't base those preferences on anything critical, grow up.Sky Jack Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06274460430707829174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31708984669147323.post-75022301127852661312012-04-19T19:56:38.375-07:002012-04-19T19:56:38.375-07:00I know this is an old article, but Im going to pos...I know this is an old article, but Im going to post this anyway. You are a moron and a liar. No-one loves everything they've eaten, unless the only time you eat is when you are litarally starving to death. I challenge you to go overseas and eat some of the things they eat in Japan or China, or try eating something that isn't normally accociated as food, but has nutritional value all the same, like tree bark, or clay. Tell me then you love everything you jackass. Shut up and don't write anymore, you just make yourself look fucking stupid.anonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02823537801096156736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31708984669147323.post-39156690417955915192009-01-06T03:58:00.000-08:002009-01-06T03:58:00.000-08:00What a load of nonsense you obviously have very li...What a load of nonsense you obviously have very little understanding of psychology or biochemistry.alunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05961209272226701369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31708984669147323.post-50381260046406691872008-10-15T10:31:00.000-07:002008-10-15T10:31:00.000-07:00AWESOME PROSPECTIVE I totally feel you. You go to...AWESOME PROSPECTIVE I totally feel you. You go to a spot and there always someone that drags you down like " i don't eat sushi" sigh* and olives can be added to so many dishes and prepared in oil's so many different ways, if you haven't tried them all you cant say you don't like "olives"MORE SAYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04633266199653920295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31708984669147323.post-59365167468309865742008-10-15T00:32:00.000-07:002008-10-15T00:32:00.000-07:00You might be right about everything, but:I was tal...You might be right about everything, but:<BR/>I was talking about the people who have the disability, the gene, that makes them get an instant horrible hangover before they're done with their first beer.<BR/><BR/>I understand supertasters and that people are different, but all of our eyeballs are slightly different, but only very few are so different that their perception of the world is discernibly special.<BR/><BR/>It isn't apples and drill bits to say that people who allow their childhoods to affect them well into adult hood, no matter what it is, are copping out. I think it's safe to say that most people who hate tomatoes do not have a major chemical or physiological difference from me.Sky Jack Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06274460430707829174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31708984669147323.post-74920409421692089732008-10-14T22:32:00.000-07:002008-10-14T22:32:00.000-07:00It sounds like a stretch because it's oranges/appl...It sounds like a stretch because it's oranges/apples. Or oranges/drill bits.<BR/><BR/>For sanity's sake, let's not define maturity or intelligence by the ability to shovel every commonly accepted foodstuff down our gullets.<BR/><BR/>I guess I didn't spell it out, but it's entirely likely that your girlfriend is physiologically different from you. (Or, more truthfully, a certainty.)<BR/><BR/>I'm not talking about chemical levels in the brain, which is where you're going with the religious tangent. I'm talking about chemical receptors in the tongue, which are objectively different from person to person, often depending on gender or ethnic background after millennia of DNA swapping. Seriously.<BR/><BR/>Again, <B>look up supertasters</B>.<BR/> <BR/>I'm not sure why people would want to "overcome such differences" when these chemical reactions are pre-wired. Tongue says no.<BR/><BR/>That's not to say that people don't avoid foods they hated when they were children, but there are, again, unpleasant chemical reactions that can occur when tongue hits food. Just because you don't experience them doesn't mean that others shouldn't.<BR/><BR/>And alcohol use was a poor example. Most people--those with working livers--can "process" alcohol (though I question the use of the word <I>properly</I>). Some people can't hold their liquor (due to physiological/genealogical reasons). Some people are more prone to alcoholism than others (social/psychological/genealogical reasons). Social situations pressure individuals to consume alcohol more than they pressure individuals to eat Brussels sprouts.<BR/><BR/>Learning to stomach alcohol and having a predisposition for alcoholism are not the same issue.<BR/><BR/>Also, alcohol is a drug, not food. All in all, it's too problematic an example.<BR/><BR/>You're confusing social sciences with the physical.williezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07328031409348619424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31708984669147323.post-17793981101302389342008-10-14T16:26:00.000-07:002008-10-14T16:26:00.000-07:00I think what you're saying is that adults who stil...I think what you're saying is that adults who still think that Brussels Sprouts are grody are <I>chemically</I> still child-like. That might give them an excuse, but my claim remains unchallenged. <BR/><BR/>I have a hard time believing that my girlfriend, who doesn't like olives, is somehow physiologically different from me. And even if she were, people can overcome such differences.<BR/><BR/>I read a study a long time ago saying that religious people were <I>chemically</I> more likely to respond favorably to Republican tenets. And people with less education were <I>chemically</I> more likely to be more religious. But that does not give them an excuse unless we start calling the religious Republicans disabled.<BR/><BR/>Some people cannot properly process alcohol. They are therefore disabled and cannot overcome that disability. But most people try brandy for the first time and hate it. After a few times, they like it.<BR/><BR/>I think the same thing happens after a Republican hangs out with black people a few times, and I think the same thing happens when a grownup eats olives a few times.<BR/><BR/>It sounds like a stretch, but I don't think it's a big one.Sky Jack Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06274460430707829174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31708984669147323.post-84423201500367695252008-10-14T11:10:00.000-07:002008-10-14T11:10:00.000-07:00Acquired taste in food can't always be attributed ...Acquired taste in food can't always be attributed to eroding initial preferences or circumstances.<BR/><BR/>Children think Brussels sprouts are grody because they <I>chemically</I> transmit grodiness to most children. Our tastes change over time because our changing taste buds receive the information differently with age. Barring situations involving starvation, there are chemically legitimate reasons for not eating something. <BR/><BR/>See esp. tasters vs. supertasters.<BR/><BR/>Right on with religion/politics/whatnot, though.williezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07328031409348619424noreply@blogger.com