We got lucky that the most essential thing to our lives, water, does not taste bad, amirite?

I imagine any genetic predisposition to disliking the taste of water would be selected against via natural selection; you're probably less likely to pass on your water hating genes if you drink less than others.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yoooooo all the people I know that hate water shouldn't reproduce

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Everyone I know who hates water has rabies

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Everybody I know has rabbits (I don't know many ppl)

by Fit_Cap 1 week ago

It'd be nice if we evolved to like it more tho.

by xlind 1 week ago

I love water. It's my favourite drink besides cola

by ProperSignal 1 week ago

I share a similar sentiment. I find the more people I talk to about it, the less I think it is a fringe quality.

by Any-Technician 1 week ago

To enjoy the flavour of water we'd need taste buds that reacts to H2O so they'd react when we eat anything and we'd probably end up still thinking it's bland, especially because we can't continuously taste our own saliva so our brain will also filter out part of that taste

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I hate the taste of water, can't bring myself to drink it. I try to hydrate myself with tea, lemonade, coke etc.

by vicenta32 1 week ago

mf said hydrate with coke

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I drink tap water. If you drink coke daily then you are used to that high sugar levels in the drink.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You're in dire need of a t-break from sugar

by Opening-Purchase-394 1 week ago

It's not luck. I doesn't taste bad because it's essential. We evolved to want it.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Also, fun fact: water is tasteless We only ever taste the impurities or things it was stored in.

by Wide_Situation 1 week ago

freshman level college bio was legit my favorite class

by Few-Actuator 1 week ago

Oh they will after they graduate middle school.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

hahahaha. no dude, we just got lucky.

by OperationNo 1 week ago

I took a biology course for gen-eds in college, almost made it a minor

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Why? Does the water taste bad there?

by No_Flatworm 1 week ago

Lucky? We developed around it, right?

by IndependenceOk 1 week ago

Are puddles lucky that the holes they're in are the perfect shape for them?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Our sense of taste is something of a side effect of having sensors on our tongues to test what we put in our mouths. They're designed to check for protein, sugar, salt, acids, and poisons, plus we've also managed to find chemicals that trip some of the heat sensors.

by rodolfo88 1 week ago

My pregnant taste buds strongly disagree 😅

by Tricky-Paint 1 week ago

Uh, a lot of people live in places where the water tastes VERY bad.

by Leanna07 1 week ago

Yeah lol; the lucky part is that we live in places with readily available clean drinking water.

by Ok-Lie-1548 1 week ago

That's not luck… that's how evolution works…

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Maybe water tastes really bad but the brain decides to avoid it anyway

by Ljohnson 1 week ago

It doesn't taste bad because we need it.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Take people like this, put them in a dessert for a day or two with nothing and see how quickly that changes lol. When hyper-stimulants are so readily available this makes sense for some. But in the absence of it, basic necessities like water become shockingly delicious.

by Fluffy-Citron 1 week ago

How's it luck? You realize it's your brain making the flavour happen, the water doesn't have an inherent flavour beyond your taste buds, right? And water is essential for our lives, sooooooo, it would be pretty hard to evolve to have taste buds/brain stuff making water taste bad. tl;dr: it's not luck, it's evolution

by Michel30 1 week ago

It's like saying we're lucky that meteors always land in craters

by ezequielrodrigu 1 week ago

Uhhhh depends where you live. But yes, nothing is better than drinking straight from a mountain spring.

by lenniekiehn 1 week ago

I mean BJs are pretty good too.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I like cronuts better.

by pascale23 1 week ago

I'm glad water cleans things and isn't sticky.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Sure, it to channel Calvin, it could taste a lot better too.

by Weird_One 1 week ago

There is no luck involved. We evolved to like the stuff, exactly because we need it. If we needed raw tree bark, we would have evolved to like that as well.

by JellyEvery7365 1 week ago

If its essential, we will inevitably evolve to like its taste. No luck involved.

by elviskovacek 1 week ago

Everything that tastes nice to us is due to evolution. Everything that tastes bad to us is due to evolution. Your body doesn't want to eat bad stuff that will make us sick, hence things like mould and rotten food tastes awful and makes us feel sick (or be sick to reject the nastiness/ poison) In comparison, stuff thats nutritious and gives our body calories and energy will taste good. Water fits into that camp.

by Unfair_Advantage 1 week ago

water allergies exist

by Traditional_Job_4660 1 week ago

Not really luck involved here. Just évolution at work

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah, but it doesn't taste good, either.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Darwin would like a word.

by sanfordleanna 1 week ago

Not to everyone. I don't like the taste of water but I still drink it because it's necessary but every time I do it gives me these weird like "heebie jeebies" shakes like you know that feeling or saying "someone just walked over my grave" like that kinda weird shiver and leaves a horrible aftertaste and feeling after drinking it.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

My grandfather would like a word with you

by Anonymous 1 week ago

To kids who get raised with sugary drinks only, water tastes bad.

by HedgehogClear 1 week ago

That's your opinion. Personally I find it to taste like literal liquid dirt. It's disgusting.

by Sharon47 1 week ago

Lmao what 🤣

by ezequielrodrigu 1 week ago

Umm.. Water tastes gross. It tastes like dirt in liquid form.

by Sharon47 1 week ago

You might what to get that checked

by Ok-Lie-1548 1 week ago

Taste is actually acquired. You can teach yourself to like any food or drink in around 2 weeks. Pavlovian conditioning

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I still don't really like the taste of beer.

by Anonymous 1 week ago