Re: Yank Homemade Southern Sweet Tea

On 6/17/2024 11:58 AM, vickiebee wrote:
> [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.
> 

my cat used to steal everything he could get his hands on, even olives. 
but sweets were absolutely safe from him.