Yes, I suppose we've evolved to be repelled by the smell of noxious cadaver bacteria. I would not like a maggot jumping on me lol - the ones in the compost an that sometimes appear in the bin never did. We used to feed them to the fish.Skip wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2017 3:10 amOnions smell worse. Decomposition is never an attractive process. You'd appreciate those peaches more if you ever had to unpack human remains gathered up from the forest floor (the average adult dismembered corpse fills three green bags) infested with maggots. Did you know some of them can jump 2-3 feet?
I am trying to respond to your post in a more sophisticated way than, "OMG! You gathered human remains?? What was that about?" but that didn't seem to work out.
It took me a while to move past smoked oysters. I don't know why they don't bother me but okra does. With instincts like that I probably wouldn't have lasted long if living in the jungle. Thank goodness for neat and clean civilisation! Hmm, come to think of it, civilisation is like a large scale metaphysical skin in itself - a veneer we lay over the messiness of nature. I suppose you could say the skin is about seven meals thick ... a fair few lesions appearing ...Skip wrote:I'm not sure what it is. Some people are very sensitive to anything slimy (I could never eat an oyster unless it was smoked - and then it's just a salty eraser); some dislike a soft, yielding texture. Mostly, i suspect, it's our imagination making connections.