In a more general way, other creatures don't experience taste the same way we do.
Bird poop is really nutritious to seeds. It makes sense for those plants to be eaten by birds (with the seed passing through the digestive tract untouched), but avoid other creatures.
Enter capcasin. Mammals find it intolerable (except for one subset of a goofy bipedal species), but birds love that shit.
"All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!"
I was today years old when I realised that "When life gives you lemons" might be a metaphor for bitter/sour situations you experience but are outside your own control...
Evolution by artificial selection is still evolution.
Also, not all animals experience sour taste in the same way. For example rats actually love eating lemons! There are literally guides online on how to stop them!
https://pestcontrolweekly.net/how-to-stop-rats-from-eating-lemons/
This just vindicates my long time thought: people make their own problems.
Completing the circle with le citron de Menton, that is mild and sweet enough to be eaten raw with the peel. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220328-the-return-of-frances-lost-menton-lemon
"LEMONS?!"
🫢 humpf
😮💦🍋 phaaa
For the 40k fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNEzD5n6SAs
When life gives you lemons, take credit.
When life gives you sour fruit, make better sour fruits!
Life didn't give me lemons, my goddamn ancestors did
It was the scientists all along!
My understanding is lemons are a hybrid that arose without human intervention. Their persistence is because of humans intervention.
According to Wikipedia lemons have been around for about 2000 to 3000 years old.
This exemplifies everything that's wrong with our species.
When we give life lemons, what is life meant to do?
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