Re: pistachios and taste evolution

In message <ej6ki75m3oh75lpoab8b4shhjtdt6rkjfe@xxxxxxx>, Richard Norman <r_s_norman@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:25:48 -0500, *Hemidactylus*
<ecphoric@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How the heck can I find the bag of pistachios I'm eating so tasty, or
like cashews and mangos if evolution is true? Poison ivy has caused me
to break out in the past. This doesn't make sense. Yet why would God
design a family that produced plants that could irritate me yet in other
cases captivate my taste buds?

Must be the FSM! The food networks are like the FSM's version of the
bible-thumping channels.

You didn't mention the deadly nightshade - Jimson weed - tobacco
family which includes the yummy potato and tomato along with the quite
obnoxious eggplant. Chili pepper spans the gap for this group.

Legumes and umbellifers also both have a mixture of food crops and highly toxic species.

As Freddy Nietzsche said: "That which does not kill us makes us
stronger."



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alias Ernest Major

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