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Resetting likes/dislikes with COVID anosmia? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by the_itsb@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Did you or anyone you know use COVID-induced loss of smell and taste to reset opinions on foods?

I thought of this when I saw some deviled eggs this past weekend. I've hated eggs since an early childhood force-feeding incident, and I can't even tolerate the smell of them, which means I can't make this dish that my husband and child absolutely love.

It suddenly occurred to me that it would have been a nice bright spot if I had had COVID anosmia - I could have finally made them deviled eggs! But then I wondered if I could have used it to reset my hatred of eggs entirely - it's not the texture that bothers me, it's the taste - and then wondered if anybody has actually done that.

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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This sounds plausible. Studies on sauce béarnaise syndrome would appear to agree with you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditioned_taste_aversion

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982220314986

CW: meat, nausea"Besides, he wondered, why was the nausea triggered by the sauce but not by the filet mignon, the pommes frites or any of the other stimuli experienced at the restaurant on that night? This conundrum was solved, in part, through work done by John Garcia showing that rats exposed to gustatory and olfactory cues — but not stimuli detected by other sensory modalities — preceding nausea lead to conditioned taste aversion."

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

"conditioned taste aversion" !!! I didn't know there was a name for it, thank you so much!! I was hoping somebody would come along with some science for me to check out ❤️ thank you thank you!!