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A medieval peasant would lose their mind eating a Dorito. Snacks nowadays are literally engineered to hijack our brains.
They're also incredibly bad for you. They're like drinking oil with a little bit of crushed flour and salt mixed in.
Which is also what makes them super delicious. Fat, crunch, Umami, salt. Most snacks also have sugar added even if they're not "sweet".
I truly find them disgusting. This is really starting to seem like astroturfing. I'm borderline about pulling it.
I don't think it's astroturfing to talk about what food engineers have figured out about human taste preferences.
A lot of people spent a lot of time and money figuring out what drives people to mindlessly eat. Then the ignored the health ramifications and started selling a lot of products that are just different textures of salted sugar fat with glutamate.
Same reason you'll absentmindedly eat a basket of bread if you have cinnamon butter, or cinnamon rolls.
We can use the food science to predict that there's probably a mild aged cheese that would be great on a cinnamon roll.
So what do you hate about doritos?
Too salty for my taste, the cheese ones make me feel awful and every other flavor tastes like gym bag smell.
Oh, and the dehydration mixed with salt blowing out your taste buds makes water taste off, so you're just dehydrated longer.
Are you actually thinking that a joke image where someone isn't overly impressed with doritos is viral advertising? On a platform with negligible traffic? With shills who call the product unhealthy?
That's so weird I might not even be able to finish my Crystal Pepsi ®.
Dude, what? I am not a shill for Big Junk Food. I'm pointing out how companies make the stuff hyperpalatable to get people to eat more of it. It's unfortunately contributing to the obesity epidemic and not good for people.
To be clear, I don't think OP is astroturfing. Wasn't sure about you and you're obviously not. I like having this stay up to explain it all though and I have to test it.
I was wrong and it doesn't seem to be astroturfing. Cool.
I'm an idiot, are you positing this whole post is essentially an advertisement?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
don't forget the sugar!
They'd honestly probably hate it. Ultra processed foods are disgusting if you're not used to them, there's a gross kinda chemically undertone to the flavor that sticks to your tongue. Normally it's covered up by making your taste buds overload, but new tastes stand out. It helps develop aversions if we get food poisoning from trying new foods
They'd also be going from never tasting spices before to total overload. A lot of them would react like people do to tear gas
Now, if they powered through and kept eating they'd probably get addicted, but it would be an acquired taste
This is why so many kids never even get started eating junk food.
It’s called Bliss Point! I just listened to a Stuff You Should Know podcast episode about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)
If the peasant is from medieval Japan, they may at least understand the umami component
giving a modern microwaved shrimp fried rice bowl to a Japanese medieval peasant
"Yeah, I could believe a shrimp fried this rice."