A general sort of musebox

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[iamnotgod]

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.

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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.

[iamnotgod]

It's a genetic mutation. Nothing nearly as complex as having a sixth finger on one hand, but a mutation all the same.

[SCIENCE.]

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How did that mutation happen?

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

[iamnotgod]

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.]

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...Someone denied sweets to people for generations?!

[That's just inhumane.]

[iamnotgod]

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.

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That's ridiculous. There's sweets everywhere. Sometimes you just can't afford them.