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41. A Small Bowl of Rocket

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How to Overcome a Disgust Reaction

Professor of Philosophy Caroline Korsmeyer has spent a lot of time thinking about disgusting things. Disgust is thought to be a basic emotion and may have evolved in order to protect us from things that will infect or poison. When it comes to food, we often don't hesitate to yuck someone else's yum. Most people I think have at least one food that makes their skin crawl. But taste is malleable. Sometimes we're tentatively willing to try foods that we have previously found disgusting.disgusting food from our curiosity. What's going on there? How close can I get to it? How much can I tolerate? Strangely enough, with food, many

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