Re: Yank Homemade Southern Sweet Tea

[email protected] wrote:
> In free.toast Nicholas D. Richards <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>, vickiebee
>> <[email protected]>  on Fri, 14 Jun 2024 at 05:44:35 awoke
>> Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>>
>>>
>>> They say that it became a cultural staple because sugar was used as a
>>> preservative in the old days and our palates grew to like the sweetness.
>>
>> All primates have a 'sweet tooth'. The ability to taste and enjoy sweet
>> things is highly developed in babies.  Our palate for sweet things is
>> not cultural.
>>>
> 
> interestingly cats have been found not to taste sweetness at all.
> just a random thing to throw out.
> 
I did not know that. Britannica sez: "While humans, monkeys, dogs and 
other animals definitely prefer sweet flavors, decades of research show 
that cats could care less about sweets. ... As it turns out, a cat's 
sweet receptor genes are broken." (Why Cats Cannot Detect Sweet Tastes)

v - remembers the time my friend left a box of chocolates out and her 
doggie ate the whole thing and had to be taken to the vit'nery.

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