Stefan: > I don't need to stress my imagination here because in the past three > months or so I preferred olives clearly over avocados (the latter > were totally out of attraction). Didn't you say that you couldn't eat fresh olives because they taste too hot? My opininion is that, without all the processings like storing in a jar, or drying (nuts...), many foods would be inedible or much less attractive to us, and our diet would be completely different. By the way, I once tried some hazelnuts which had just fallen from the tree (in the street) and... I had to spit them out in emergency. Has it happened to anyone of you? Jean-Louis [log in to unmask]