What kind of roll was it? And do you, personally, like the crust or crumb of said type of roll better? What about when you were a kid?
Over the past two years I’ve cut most of the more industrially refined oils, grains, sugars, and salt, as well as added natural and artificial flavors. Within a few months my taste buds shifted in several ways, and a lot of popular (in the US) foods I used to like now taste bland, off, unbalanced, or fake to me. It made me realize how much more, in the past, we could trust our sense of taste to tell us what was good for us. And as much as we try to follow the research on what humans know about good nutrition, it’s really hard to find good advice that’s actually useful and actionable. Bodies are complicated, there are a lot of variables, and the outcomes we really care about are ones that we sum up over a whole lifetime, not the ones we can easily and quickly measure.
So if the bread thought is about unpleasantness and virtue, I think it’s probably cultural. Maybe something like that was once adaptive in a world of scarce good food, maybe it originated in all the diet crazes of the last few generations, maybe it comes from various bits of religious history. But it’s also true in general that we get more calories from cooked food than raw food, so I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if there’s a mental link between more burnt-->more cooked--> more nutritious coming from that way as well, though that’s pure just-so speculation from me.
That said, I do think there’s real value (for health, physical and mental) in having a varied diet, and part of what we do when we feed kids is train them to accept variety and learn to enjoy variety so they can feed themselves a healthy diet later in life. At first we feed them a bland nutrient-rich fluid , then simple purees, and gradually shift away from that to new flavors and textures.
It was a soft roll with a pretty soft crust. Personally I eat pretty much everything, crust included, but I still have this childhood association of crust as the not nice part of the bread even though I personally don’t mind it (I would still say I prefer the inner parts of bread over the crust though).
What kind of roll was it? And do you, personally, like the crust or crumb of said type of roll better? What about when you were a kid?
Over the past two years I’ve cut most of the more industrially refined oils, grains, sugars, and salt, as well as added natural and artificial flavors. Within a few months my taste buds shifted in several ways, and a lot of popular (in the US) foods I used to like now taste bland, off, unbalanced, or fake to me. It made me realize how much more, in the past, we could trust our sense of taste to tell us what was good for us. And as much as we try to follow the research on what humans know about good nutrition, it’s really hard to find good advice that’s actually useful and actionable. Bodies are complicated, there are a lot of variables, and the outcomes we really care about are ones that we sum up over a whole lifetime, not the ones we can easily and quickly measure.
So if the bread thought is about unpleasantness and virtue, I think it’s probably cultural. Maybe something like that was once adaptive in a world of scarce good food, maybe it originated in all the diet crazes of the last few generations, maybe it comes from various bits of religious history. But it’s also true in general that we get more calories from cooked food than raw food, so I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if there’s a mental link between more burnt-->more cooked--> more nutritious coming from that way as well, though that’s pure just-so speculation from me.
That said, I do think there’s real value (for health, physical and mental) in having a varied diet, and part of what we do when we feed kids is train them to accept variety and learn to enjoy variety so they can feed themselves a healthy diet later in life. At first we feed them a bland nutrient-rich fluid , then simple purees, and gradually shift away from that to new flavors and textures.
It was a soft roll with a pretty soft crust. Personally I eat pretty much everything, crust included, but I still have this childhood association of crust as the not nice part of the bread even though I personally don’t mind it (I would still say I prefer the inner parts of bread over the crust though).