“But how can you KNOOOOOW you don’t like the food if you’ve never TRIIIIIIIIEEEEEEED it?????”

jayranwritesthings:

• by looking at it to make texture predictions
• smelling it to make taste predictions
• poking at it with a fork to ascertain the flexibility and chewiness
• considering its similarities to other foods I’ve disliked
• considering its differences from other foods I’ve liked
• knowing that there is an ingredient in it that I hate
• trying to chop it with a knife and feeling the gristliness and hearing that telltale horrible creaking noise of gristle and noping right out of that situation
• this is how humans naturally decided whether or not to eat unfamiliar foods in the wild thousands of years ago
• our senses interact with each other to protect us, so your nose alerts you to an incoming bad taste before you put it in your mouth so you don’t end up eating the bad thing and dying
• this is how we survived as a species
• it is perfectly rational
• it makes perfect sense
• so stop

• we aren’t in a famine and I can decide what I do and do not want to eat without your input, thank you, go away