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Kitty ([personal profile] runs) wrote in [community profile] stormaktstiden2020-01-07 07:01 pm
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2020-01-09 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not spoken of often, but there ARE kids who don't have the tastebud-wiring to enjoy sweet things.

[Though he. Doesn't have the wiring to taste ANYTHING, alas.]

I wouldn't know about the rhubarb, but what about cream?
runs: (oh *shit*)

[personal profile] runs 2020-01-12 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
What happened to them?

[Because she can't imagine anyone being born like that. They must have acquired it. Maybe their Keeper took their tongue or... well, whatever can happen to non-Changeling people that would have that kind of effect.]
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2020-01-12 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes they do grow out of it, yes, but there are still many people who find sweet things too sweet.

[Ahhh, neuroplasticity to the rescue!]
runs: (duh)

[personal profile] runs 2020-01-12 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
...Adults.

[People who call perfectly tasty things too sweet are called adults, in her experience.

And back on topic:] But what HAPPENED to the children that can't taste sweetness? [Did they give the ability to perceive sweetness up for a trade on the goblin market? That'd make sense.]
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2020-01-12 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
There ARE adults who still enjoy sweets as well, Kitty.

[He can provide you with Citations if needed.]

They don't disappear or gain superpowers, if that's what you're thinking. It's just natural human variance, when it happens.
runs: (I grew up down here)

[personal profile] runs 2020-01-12 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess there HAVE to be some people that don't lose all sense.

[DOUBT] But what happened to them to not have that kind of ability in the first place? There has to be a reason why they cannot taste.
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2020-01-12 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a genetic mutation. Nothing nearly as complex as having a sixth finger on one hand, but a mutation all the same.

[SCIENCE.]
runs: (considering all that)

[personal profile] runs 2020-01-12 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
How did that mutation happen?
iamnotgod: Many lines curving off into the distance and entangling, shaded in colors from yellow to purple (Default)

There really is an NPR spot on this: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/07/24/425609156/the-g

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2020-01-12 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Much of the matter comes down to where people come from; the materials to make sweets don't exist worldwide, and if a group of people are unexposed to sugar, over a long period of time, before it's introduced, then both culturally and genetically they have fewer reasons to take to it.

[So, tradition and sensitivity, essentially.]
runs: (oh *shit*)

[personal profile] runs 2020-01-12 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
...Someone denied sweets to people for generations?!

[That's just inhumane.]
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2020-01-12 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Strictly speaking, there was no one to do the denying.

There was just no one to provide them, insofar as people today would consider them sweets.
runs: (what the heck)

[personal profile] runs 2020-01-13 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
That's ridiculous. There's sweets everywhere. Sometimes you just can't afford them.
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