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We got lucky that the most essential thing to our lives, water, does not taste bad, amirite?
by Anonymous1 week ago
I imagine any genetic predisposition to disliking the taste of water would be selected against via natural selection; you're probably less likely to pass on your water hating genes if you drink less than others.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Yoooooo all the people I know that hate water shouldn't reproduce
by Anonymous1 week ago
Everyone I know who hates water has rabies
by Anonymous1 week ago
Everybody I know has rabbits (I don't know many ppl)
by Fit_Cap1 week ago
It'd be nice if we evolved to like it more tho.
by xlind1 week ago
I love water. It's my favourite drink besides cola
by ProperSignal1 week ago
I share a similar sentiment. I find the more people I talk to about it, the less I think it is a fringe quality.
by Any-Technician1 week ago
To enjoy the flavour of water we'd need taste buds that reacts to H2O so they'd react when we eat anything and we'd probably end up still thinking it's bland, especially because we can't continuously taste our own saliva so our brain will also filter out part of that taste
by Anonymous1 week ago
I hate the taste of water, can't bring myself to drink it. I try to hydrate myself with tea, lemonade, coke etc.
by vicenta321 week ago
mf said hydrate with coke
by Anonymous1 week ago
I drink tap water. If you drink coke daily then you are used to that high sugar levels in the drink.
by Anonymous1 week ago
You're in dire need of a t-break from sugar
by Opening-Purchase-3941 week ago
It's not luck. I doesn't taste bad because it's essential. We evolved to want it.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Also, fun fact: water is tasteless We only ever taste the impurities or things it was stored in.
by Wide_Situation1 week ago
freshman level college bio was legit my favorite class
by Few-Actuator1 week ago
Oh they will after they graduate middle school.
by Anonymous1 week ago
hahahaha. no dude, we just got lucky.
by OperationNo1 week ago
I took a biology course for gen-eds in college, almost made it a minor
by Anonymous1 week ago
Why? Does the water taste bad there?
by No_Flatworm1 week ago
Lucky? We developed around it, right?
by IndependenceOk1 week ago
Are puddles lucky that the holes they're in are the perfect shape for them?
by Anonymous1 week ago
Our sense of taste is something of a side effect of having sensors on our tongues to test what we put in our mouths. They're designed to check for protein, sugar, salt, acids, and poisons, plus we've also managed to find chemicals that trip some of the heat sensors.
by rodolfo881 week ago
My pregnant taste buds strongly disagree 😅
by Tricky-Paint1 week ago
Uh, a lot of people live in places where the water tastes VERY bad.
by Leanna071 week ago
Yeah lol; the lucky part is that we live in places with readily available clean drinking water.
by Ok-Lie-15481 week ago
That's not luck… that's how evolution works…
by Anonymous1 week ago
Maybe water tastes really bad but the brain decides to avoid it anyway
by Ljohnson1 week ago
It doesn't taste bad because we need it.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Take people like this, put them in a dessert for a day or two with nothing and see how quickly that changes lol. When hyper-stimulants are so readily available this makes sense for some. But in the absence of it, basic necessities like water become shockingly delicious.
by Fluffy-Citron1 week ago
How's it luck? You realize it's your brain making the flavour happen, the water doesn't have an inherent flavour beyond your taste buds, right? And water is essential for our lives, sooooooo, it would be pretty hard to evolve to have taste buds/brain stuff making water taste bad. tl;dr: it's not luck, it's evolution
by Michel301 week ago
It's like saying we're lucky that meteors always land in craters
by ezequielrodrigu1 week ago
Uhhhh depends where you live. But yes, nothing is better than drinking straight from a mountain spring.
by lenniekiehn1 week ago
I mean BJs are pretty good too.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I like cronuts better.
by pascale231 week ago
I'm glad water cleans things and isn't sticky.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Sure, it to channel Calvin, it could taste a lot better too.
by Weird_One1 week ago
There is no luck involved. We evolved to like the stuff, exactly because we need it. If we needed raw tree bark, we would have evolved to like that as well.
by JellyEvery73651 week ago
If its essential, we will inevitably evolve to like its taste. No luck involved.
by elviskovacek1 week ago
Everything that tastes nice to us is due to evolution. Everything that tastes bad to us is due to evolution. Your body doesn't want to eat bad stuff that will make us sick, hence things like mould and rotten food tastes awful and makes us feel sick (or be sick to reject the nastiness/ poison) In comparison, stuff thats nutritious and gives our body calories and energy will taste good. Water fits into that camp.
Not to everyone. I don't like the taste of water but I still drink it because it's necessary but every time I do it gives me these weird like "heebie jeebies" shakes like you know that feeling or saying "someone just walked over my grave" like that kinda weird shiver and leaves a horrible aftertaste and feeling after drinking it.
by Anonymous1 week ago
My grandfather would like a word with you
by Anonymous1 week ago
To kids who get raised with sugary drinks only, water tastes bad.
by HedgehogClear1 week ago
That's your opinion. Personally I find it to taste like literal liquid dirt. It's disgusting.
by Sharon471 week ago
Lmao what 🤣
by ezequielrodrigu1 week ago
Umm.. Water tastes gross. It tastes like dirt in liquid form.
by Sharon471 week ago
You might what to get that checked
by Ok-Lie-15481 week ago
Taste is actually acquired. You can teach yourself to like any food or drink in around 2 weeks. Pavlovian conditioning
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