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1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2017 01:00:32 UTC Annah

   • Jack Gandy
   @scionicspectre There's several factors.  Body chemistry is one, to be fair.  But it is only one, and there are many more.
   
   Try to get any two people to agree on the taste map of the human tongue - they can't.  Because it's an old standard based on a generalization that's no longer true, because we've done that whole "evolving as a species" thing in the meantime. Smell and taste are also related, so people with chronic allergies for instance taste very differently.
   
   But there's a lot of it that comes down to undisciplined parents not even trying to get kids to eat things they don't like either - a less diverse pallete perceives differently than a more diverse one.
   
   
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   this has been "May answering a post at length way too seriously" :v
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2017 01:22:53 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Jack Gandy
     @maiyannah @scionicspectre We did not evolve new and different tongues in a mere 100 years. The idea was bogus from the beginning. Bad science.
   • Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2017 01:24:20 UTC Annah

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     • Jack Gandy
     • Hallå Kitteh
     @clacke @scionicspectre Youll have different tastes from childhood to adulthood.  Let alone the species over 100 years, or more.
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   • Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2017 01:27:24 UTC Annah

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     • Jack Gandy
     • Hallå Kitteh
     @scionicspectre @clacke The idea that they're static and don't move or change over time is the fundamental error they made, but you can and do taste different things with different parts of your tongue, something you can very easily test right now if you wanted to :)
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2017 01:30:36 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Jack Gandy
     @maiyannah @scionicspectre Tastes change over the years, absolutely. Hearing loss, changes in eyesight, mental changes. Growing and aging is not evolution. No significant genetic drift or selection happens in three generations. It's pretty impressive that things like blue eyes, blonde hair and lactose tolerance evolved as recently as 10000 years ago.
   • Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2017 01:31:31 UTC Annah

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     • Jack Gandy
     • Hallå Kitteh
     @clacke @scionicspectre Yeah, I'm sure all those medication resistant bacteria and virii took 10,000 years too :]
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2017 01:32:10 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Jack Gandy
     @maiyannah @scionicspectre Yes, there is some difference in concentration of various taste buds on different parts. But that's not the nonsense we were taught in school, that was "sweet is here, sour is here, basta".
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2017 01:32:56 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Jack Gandy
     @maiyannah @scionicspectre They don't reproduce once every 20-30 years. Big difference.
   • Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2017 01:33:46 UTC Annah

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     • Hallå Kitteh
     @clacke @scionicspectre You haven't met many baptists I see, haha
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2017 01:36:53 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Jack Gandy
     @maiyannah @scionicspectre Staphylococcus aureus multiplies every 30 minutes. I bet even your baptists would have trouble keeping up. :-D