When I was younger my brother came up with a plan for how we could eat as much candy as we wanted without actually consuming all the sugar it containes. We would simply chew the candy, giving us the taste and feel, and then spit it out instead of swallowing it.
This did not work as intended. It was, in fact, worse than not having any candy at all. The urge to swallow is incredibly strong and the feeling of dissatisfaction once you spit it out is overwhelming.
To this day I get uncomfortable thinking about it.
What gives?
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Sugar is more than just *sweet taste good stuff*
It serves to maintain physical processes that are absolutely essential to functioning/living and are more or less unrelated to the actual taste of the thing.
Think about drinking something – you need water to survive so you have a biological urge to drink – I love mtn dew Baja blast to me it’s the greatest soda of all time amazing crisp flavor etc etc if I’m thirsty no matter how delicious the beverage is if I drink some but spit it out I get the delicious blast of lime flavor but it doesn’t serve the same biological purpose as just drinking it
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