Tuesday, July 19, 2005

hot meat!

I'm sitting here at my desk eating some chicken thighs for my lunch. I just pulled them out of the microwave down the hall. They're good.

Thighs have more fat than, say, breasts, which is yummy. This I understand.

There's a little salt on them from when they were cooked a few days ago. Salt is yummy. This I understand.

But there's something else. The very fact that the meat is piping hot makes them taste better.

Why is that? I'm not sure, but I have two theories:

1. The fat melts in the heat, allowing it to flow out of the meat & into my taste buds. As I mentioned, I like the taste of animal fat.

2. Humans have evolved to eat fresh meat. Fresh = the beast's heart is still pounding out its last beats. Just before its eyes fade, it sees you take a bite of freshly-carved meat, its blood dripping down your chin. Meat tastes best at body temperature.

What do you think?

3 comments:

Travis said...

Did we evolve to eat fresh meat, or did we evolve to eat cooked meat? I thought our evolutionary ancestors discovered fire, and we've since evolved a reliance on cooked meat.

Jay Bazuzi said...

Well, I wasn't there, so I can't say for sure :-).

Anonymous said...

Gross!

 
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