From: Dariusz ROZYCKI <[log in to unmask]>
> Things may be somewhat different when a pigeon or a person is really
> hungry, I think.  One does [instinctively, mind you] pay much less
> attention to the taste or smell when he has not eaten long enough.
> Then again, one shouldn't really let himself come to the point where his
> instincts of tasting/smelling the food before consumption start
> taking a back seat to his instincts of hunger and the need for [any] food.

But the SAME pigeons which hardly paid attention to my mung beans
literally competed against each other to get the chick peas.
And after I completed my fast, carrots didn't taste good at all.

JL