Re: Yank Homemade Southern Sweet Tea

In article <[email protected]>, Kyonshi
<[email protected]>  on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 at 12:25:00 awoke Nicholas from
his slumbers and wrote
>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.

Too true, my cats would steal any meat that I was stupid enough to leave
accessible but not chocolate/sugar.  I tried coating meat with hot lime
pickle, which put them off and worked well at training them to stay off
food preparation surfaces. It worked well until I bought a kitten who
liked lime pickle.
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