Do you agree that part of the reason kids beg for pizza is that it tastes really good?
My kids didn’t want pizza (pretty much ever), until they started school, and then they wanted pizza primarily when having friends over. I think its more social/cultural then anything else.
Also, they are pizza snobs- I’m not allowed to order from a local place because its “too salty, and too greasy.” They’d prefer no pizza, or a usual dinner (stir fry or something) to the wrong pizza.
Also, I’m not sure if “super stimulus” food are super stimulus consistently. I hate fast food burgers, and have since I was little (but sit me down in a hole-in-the-wall mexican place and I’ll eat until I wish I was dead).
Well do you agree that despite your experiences, there do seem to be certain foods which are considered tasty and difficult to resist by large numbers of people?
I actually live in a fairly healthy “bubble,” I don’t know many significantly overweight people. I know the stereotypes, I guess, that fat people guzzle sodas and pound mcdonalds.
I guess the one example of someone who eats typical bad-for-you foods is my wife’s sister who basically grew up only eating burgers (an extremely picky eater with very permissive parents. She still pretty much only eats burgers). But she weighs 125 lbs and runs marathons.
But again, these are my selective anecdotes. I don’t claim representative knowledge.
My kids didn’t want pizza (pretty much ever), until they started school, and then they wanted pizza primarily when having friends over. I think its more social/cultural then anything else.
Also, they are pizza snobs- I’m not allowed to order from a local place because its “too salty, and too greasy.” They’d prefer no pizza, or a usual dinner (stir fry or something) to the wrong pizza.
Also, I’m not sure if “super stimulus” food are super stimulus consistently. I hate fast food burgers, and have since I was little (but sit me down in a hole-in-the-wall mexican place and I’ll eat until I wish I was dead).
Just adding a few anecdotes.
Well do you agree that despite your experiences, there do seem to be certain foods which are considered tasty and difficult to resist by large numbers of people?
I actually live in a fairly healthy “bubble,” I don’t know many significantly overweight people. I know the stereotypes, I guess, that fat people guzzle sodas and pound mcdonalds.
I guess the one example of someone who eats typical bad-for-you foods is my wife’s sister who basically grew up only eating burgers (an extremely picky eater with very permissive parents. She still pretty much only eats burgers). But she weighs 125 lbs and runs marathons.
But again, these are my selective anecdotes. I don’t claim representative knowledge.
And the overweight people you know don’t seem to have any specific foods or types of foods which they have trouble resisting?