Okay , next time , i will try to let people knows that i am talking about my
perceptions of thing .
I take as a given that there is no generalised truth anywhere but that there
is  as many views of the world that there is of  pair of eyes.
YOur experience makes me confirm the idea that the inprint of the early
experiences during foetus time and infancy or early childhood are
determining big time the preferences of taste later on.
for ex my wife having had ,as a routine ,carrot juice in a bottle when a
baby  have a taste for carrot that is enormous.
The weanning of any aromas for some years is not going to erase this of
memory easely.
If i was resented to the smell of tomatopaste sourcream soup i will
certainlly salivate on it
May be the smell of burned fatty meats juices is associated ( for me not the
neighbour )  with having to stop the playing to help set up the table or
more simply with a reduced level of oxygene in a badly ventilated
appartment.

jean-claude






>jean-claude:
>> the addictive aromas created by half
>> burning it ( once weaned from them they are not attractive anymore )
>
>I respect your experience, yet that has not been my experience. After over
>eight years all raw (and with plenty of RAF) the two smells that were
>_extremely_ attractive to both my wife and I were barbecued meat and
steamed
>veggies. Both of which are a staple in our diet these days...
>
>> , i
>> don't understand that cooked meat is said to be tastier than  raw it is
>> allways drier,  more difficult to chew and unflavorfull .
>
>Again, this is your experience, hardly something to generalize to the
entire
>human population.
>
>> Cooking meat have the superiority over raw meat that it will not be  so
>> repulsive when not needed by the body, so you swalow it anyway.
>
>And it may be because humans have been cooking meat long enough to adapt to
>it to an important degree. My conclusion after many years is that I am not
>perfectly adapted to an all-raw diet nor an all-cooked diet.
>
>> A meat chosen instinctively like shrimp or crab is allways far superior
>> tasting than the lifeless cooked counterpart.
>
>"Allways" in not a word justified in this instance unless you are referring
>only to your own experience--perhaps you are.
>
>Cheers,
>Kirt