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SatansMaggotyCumFart piefed.social SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social
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JohnnyEnzyme piefed.social JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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I have no idea who the fool was who downvoted this, but brussels sprouts to me are the BOMB.

That looks like a delicious feast, to me. ❤️

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tal lemmy.today tal@lemmy.today
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I have no idea who the fool was who downvoted this, but brussels sprouts to me are the BOMB. That looks like a delicious feast, to me. ❤️

Brussels sprouts are one of the foods that contains some chemicals that most people can't taste, but certain people ("supertasters") do taste and experience as being bitter. These people tend to dislike these foods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster

In the 1960s, Roland Fischer was the first to link the ability to taste PTC, and the related compound propylthiouracil (PROP) to food preference, diet, and calorie intake.[11] Today, PROP has replaced PTC for research because of a faint sulfurous odor and safety concerns with PTC.[12] In the 1990s Linda Bartoshuk and colleagues discovered that the taster group could be further divided into medium tasters and supertasters.[13][14] Research suggests 25% of the population are non-tasters, 50% are medium tasters, and 25% are supertasters.[2][15]

As a result of hundreds of studies exploring the detection threshold variation in taste sensitivity, the ability to taste the bitter compound phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) has become one of the best-known Mendelian traits in human populations, ranking alongside eye color and blood type in the canon of classic examples.[16]

Although individual food preferences for supertasters cannot be typified, documented examples for either lessened preference or consumption include:

  • Brassica oleracea cultivars
    • Brussels sprouts
    • Cabbage
    • Kale
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decolo piefed.social decolo@piefed.social
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The presentation is so good. I don't even like any of the ingredients on that plate if you asked me individually but I would ask for seconds of that dish

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SatansMaggotyCumFart piefed.social SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social
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The presentation is so good. I don't even like any of the ingredients on that plate if you asked me individually but I would ask for seconds of that dish

You don’t like baked potatoes?

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decolo piefed.social decolo@piefed.social
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You don’t like baked potatoes?

Ah, I thought that was a pear split in half lol

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