Comments on: Rare just tastes better

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By: Geoff Russell

Geoff Russell — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:00:04 +0000

There are analogous results in other fields. What people say they
taste is heavily influenced by what they think they are eating and
their value system.

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/590319

Very roughly speaking, tell a vegan something is meat and they’ll say
it tastes bad, and tell a meat eater it is faux meat and they’ll spit it
out saying yuck.

The problem with certification schemes and the
like is two fold: 1) they assume everybody cares … they don’t, and
2) Someone will start a rumour that the so-called sustainable food
doesn’t taste as good as the “real thing” … see problem 1) and
witness wild caught salmon.