• CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    It’s weird how kids get accustomed to how a food should look and how that affects its taste to them.

    There was a study where scientists wrapped home made hamburgers in McDonald’s wrappers and the same hamburgers in similar but unbranded wrappers and asked which tasted better. McDonald’s wrappers won.

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      10 months ago

      They’re both thinking it either way.

      Side note, we never fed my kid anything that wasn’t what the rest of us were having for dinner. He’s a good (non picky) eater, but we did accidentally give him the hotter portion of some Indian food when he was 2, and he’s only recently started enjoying spicier foods again 5 years later. Spicy Mexican never bothered him though oddly, just curries.