The fact that food that tastes good is bad for you and food that tastes bad is good for you.
And I find it hard to accept that There isn’t a Sod, up there lauging hearilly at his law.
I think it’s that mushrooms and toadstools taste the same. The Sod is a betting man, giving odds to the Devil.
How about the fact that our naughty bits and our stinky bits are right next door?
I had a theology professor who said God’s biggest joke is that we have bodies.
I wish I’d reviewed my OP within the edit window.
Damn you Sod.
But Sod Bless St. Peater!
Not entirely true. Food that tastes good but is bad for you is bad for you *in the amounts available today. * Things like fat and sugar are in fact good for you in the amounts that would be available if you had to hunt and gather them yourself. What you think of as food that is good for you but tastes “bad,” is stuff that is easy to get and that you’d sure enough eat if you were really hungry. Vegetables don’t run away. You don’t need to expend much energy to get them, so there’s no need for humans to have developed a craving for them. If there were a tribe of hunter-gatherers who hated sugar and fat they would probably starve to death.
OTOH, there is the stuff that is really bad for you and tastes so awful you would not want to eat it even if you were starving: rotten meat, vomit, dirt, feces, etc.
But…but…what about garlic? And cabbage? Red wine is good for you! Pasta Putanesca is good for you. Great big luscious salads are good for you.
Blackberry pie is good for you – blackberries have more antioxidants than blueberries. When come, bring antioxidants!
I love Douglas Adams take on God being a jerk.
(heavily paraphrased because I can’t find my copy of Last Chance to See)
The coconut is truly delicious, one of God’s most wondrous creations. So God puts it 40 feet in the air in a tree with no limbs.
That just proves that Sod is a civil engineer.
Shhh. If Og hears you, he will punish you all for worshiping a false Sod.
Kneel before Sod!
There’s a sod off joke in here somewhere, but it is time for bed…
Technically speaking, pretty much all food items are good for you, in the right quantities.
Who would win in a fight? Og or Sod?
Actually Og and Sod mated and have an offspring called Sog.
I’m another who finds this strange. There’s all sorts of food that tastes good and is good for you, and no shortage of things that taste bad and are bad for you. MLS is correct that the issue is quantity.
So our ancestors (that is, the ones who wanted to eat) were forced to evolve arms, hands and brains - works for me.
The notion that what’s desirable should be available with minimal effort is a bit strange, when you think about it.
I don’t want to be too vivid, but certainly the situation is worse for dogs. Imagine your wife had six boobs, and you didn’t have any hands?
Well, see, that’s my point. If something that’s good for you is easy to get, there is no reason why you should have a particular craving for it, i.e. it’s delicious.
Imagine 3 sets of pre-humans. All have the same nutritional needs, with one variation. One hates meat but loves fruit and spinach. The second loves meat, hates sweet things like fruit and honey and loves spinach. Another loves meat and sweet things but hates spinach. Meat is very hard to get. Fruit is relatively hard to get, and not always available. Honey is very hard to get. Spinach is easy to get and is always available. Group A is going to be deficient in fat and protein. Group B is going to be lower in energy from lack of any sugar. Group C is going to be the best nourished because they will work hard to get the meat and sugars, but will probably also eat a lot of spinach, since at least it’s there even if they hate it.
Og, but only if he’s prepared.