Candy, cookies, and their high-sugar ilk taste delightful, if eaten without guilt. Adults tend to replace them with processed, professionally-designed “snacks”, which taste about as good and harm the body about as much. I tend to replace them with, say, a mere baked potato. It tastes less good, but the difference is small. From there to lettuce is a change about as large, i.e. about as small.
Are you claiming that there’s not much difference, in experiential terms, between a cookie and lettuce? If so, then (a) you’re very obviously wrong, and (b) given that you claim this, I don’t believe anything you say about food.
If this is not what you’re claiming, then please clarify.
(Cookies and baked potatoes are, of course, both great; but it is foolishness to try to rank them, on some sort of unidimensional scale. That’s not how enjoyment of food works! For one thing, there are multiple dimensions of experiential variation; for another thing, the experienced “deliciousness”, and enjoyment along various dimensions, of any given food item, is not fixed, but varies dynamically, in response to a number of factors—including what other foods you’ve been eating.)
P.S.: The “radical cure for sugar enjoyment” described in your linked post (taking emetic drugs when you consume sugar) is a really bad idea.
True, if you were gonna vomit repeatedly. I suspect the association might be forged after only one or two times. Maybe it fades after one week, so you do it again, then it fades after one month, then a year… like it’s an Anki card.
Are you claiming that there’s not much difference, in experiential terms, between a cookie and lettuce? If so, then (a) you’re very obviously wrong, and (b) given that you claim this, I don’t believe anything you say about food.
If this is not what you’re claiming, then please clarify.
(Cookies and baked potatoes are, of course, both great; but it is foolishness to try to rank them, on some sort of unidimensional scale. That’s not how enjoyment of food works! For one thing, there are multiple dimensions of experiential variation; for another thing, the experienced “deliciousness”, and enjoyment along various dimensions, of any given food item, is not fixed, but varies dynamically, in response to a number of factors—including what other foods you’ve been eating.)
P.S.: The “radical cure for sugar enjoyment” described in your linked post (taking emetic drugs when you consume sugar) is a really bad idea.
Not disagreeing, but what’s your reason? Loss of gut flora?
Many reasons, including that vomiting repeatedly is bad for your esophagus.
True, if you were gonna vomit repeatedly. I suspect the association might be forged after only one or two times. Maybe it fades after one week, so you do it again, then it fades after one month, then a year… like it’s an Anki card.