Vaniver comments on Outside the Laboratory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hyporational 16 December 2013 06:43:38PM 0 points [-]

Super-stimulus foods are ether very sugary or very salty

Or fatty.

You seem to think that any tasty food is super-stimulus food.

Shouldn't pretty much any cooked food be a super-stimulus considering the relevant ancestral environment and why we intricately cook food in the first place?

Small children in general also like pasta and even you probably wouldn't consider it a super-stimulus food.

Super-stimuli could be different for different age groups. I've never seen anyone love plain pasta, they like their ketchup and sauce too.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 December 2013 08:49:32AM 2 points [-]

I've never seen anyone love plain pasta, they like their ketchup

Oh God! Please never utter those two words in the same sentence where an Italian can hear you. I was about to barf on the keyboard! :-)

and sauce too.

Then again, people (other than me, at least) don't usually binge on flat bread without toppings, either.

Comment author: Vaniver 17 December 2013 09:10:06AM *  0 points [-]

I binge on (fresh) bread without toppings, but I find pasta much more enjoyable with ketchup or some sort of spice.

Comment author: Laoch 17 December 2013 10:26:54AM 0 points [-]

Yuck!