Tuesday, September 10, 2002

Teach children to stop hating broccoli

Yes, but can you get them to actually like it? Or will you be okay with simple neutrality? I find the best way to stop hating broccoli is to cover it with cheese or stir-fry it with beef.

There's a real question here. Is something tasting good objective or subjective? That is, do people like sugar and fat and other things that are "bad" for them because they really do taste good, or because people have been trained to? Anyway, the Canadian person in question seems to come down on the side of subjectivity. She thinks you can train kids to like broccoli. Yeah, right.

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