>What about storing cow secretions in a food refrigerator? Ooohhhh, gross. And what about that dead animal muscle tissue (turkey breast sandwich), and what about blood sausage? And of course, don't forget the bee barf (honey). I mean really..... >Question: Why do we all love candy and sweet treats so much? >Answer: The taste of our mother's breast milk leads many of us to a lifetime >of loving >sweets. As children, we learn to associate sweets with good feelings. But >scientifically, speaking, we feel good because eating sugary treats >temporarily >raises our blood sugar, providing a kind of euphoria. Ah, this explains why all those bottle-fed children and adults don't like sweets....I'd always wondered...... A more *likely* explanation is that our hunter-gatherer ancestors know that fruits and vegetables have more nutritional value when they are ripe, which usually correlates with sweetness. Kathy Dettwyler, Anthropologist