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iammjmyesterday at 12:23 PM1 replyview on HN

Clearly "tasting good" is not the primary driver behind all of this. Good taste is an incentive to satisfy something more primary, similar like sex feels good in order to satisfy procreation


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Aurornisyesterday at 1:31 PM

> Good taste is an incentive to satisfy something more primary,

Covered in my comment above: The more primary drive is that those are high calorie foods. A drive to consume more high calorie foods is beneficial in times of food scarcity, like the past.