#also stop bbquing with propane you heathens

[juneookami]

I think there's also something to be said about highly processed foods, specially in the US, that have so much added sugar and salt that they taste completely wrong to people on organic diets or from other countries.

Many, many people I know that have spent time in the US complain that everything is sweet, bread is sweet, pizza is sweet, they feel sick after a few days even cus it's so so different. When you grow up and live your whole life eating artificially sweetened everything, it must wreck your taste buds. It's probably why Americans lose so often lose their shits when eating abroad, cus food... tastes like food.

I feel like very often when people complain about foods not having flavors its actually just that they’ve so burnt out their sense of taste on salt and sugar that they have no frame of reference anymore

and this is not a question of seasoning, or being hyperbolic (”this has no flavor” to indicate it has inadequate preparation)

this means like when people say everything tastes like chicken, or that celery has no flavor, because no? chicken tastes like chicken, and celery has a very distinct flavor. like honestly take a few weeks to just cut back on the salt and sugar and you’ll find that a lot of food tastes very differently than you remember