Hi Wally,
Okay, I get it now. I'm a little slow some days. :-)
  I think that we evolved our senses of taste and smell as a part of our 
adaptation to our environment. When I smell a new food I can often tell 
whether I want to or should eat it. I have celiac disease and as a kid I 
was often chastised for eating only the icing on cakes and the filling 
from pies. The smell of bread or pastry baking was, to me, sometimes 
indistinguishable from raw sewage. I realize that most people don't 
experience that reaction, but just imagine someone trying to pressure 
you into eating something that smelled like a mixture of fecal matter 
and urine! I was a difficult child anyway, and my responses to "good 
food" were not well received by the adults in my life.

Relatedly, if there was enough sugar on it, as with donuts, I would 
sometimes eat it. I think that the sweet taste is almost universally 
acceptable, although one list member posted earlier today about his wife 
who finds sweet tastes repulsive, so maybe there is something in sugar 
that is a threat to her health????

Anyway, thanks for the clarification.
best wishes,
Ron

> Nope, didn't miss it. Just not convinced it has anything to do with the initial taste of something.
>
> As an adult, I admit I cannot remember the first time I tasted sugar, or chocolate, or whatever. However, as an adult, I have tasted new things. Some were flavorful, others not. I assume it was like that when I was a baby/toddler.


-- 
PK