I am surprised that when I rarely eat animal food products my sense of smell and taste actually change. I was astounded when, a number of years ago, I went to play piano at a Christmas party and when I arrived, the house stunk like some unholy death. Being naturally polite and sociable, I didn't say anything but chatted politely until I started playing piano. The whole event struck me as very peculiar until I finally realized that what I was smelling was the turkey cooking in the oven. I was astounded that I remembered the smell of turkey as pleasant and yet this was ghastly and putrid. And yet everybody seemed to be pleasantly enjoying themselves, so the food wasn't poisoned. To this day the smell of cooking turkey is unpleasant to me. Strange.
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William Schaeffer
The advantage to knowing this is the realization that ALL our habits themselves are highly mutable and we can change and adapt much more readily than we give ourselves credit for being able to do. The same thing happened to me with Cola, Diet Cola and water -- as I went through a slow progression of preferred beverage of taste.
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