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And then ripping their delicious burnt flesh of their bones with our teeth.

I wouldn't say it's delicious. Try preparing meat yourself without any seasoning. It's eadible but that's the best you can say about it. We have to do additional work to make it delicious.

What? I've eaten plenty of meat without seasoning before. I question your cooking procedures if it doesn't taste good (or maybe you just don't like meat, that's a possibility too).

It's possible that it's something about my tastebuds bacause I really can't relate to people saying meat tastes good. For me salt tastes good, pepper tastes good, rosmary tastes good. Without them meat is as appealing as anything vultures dine on.

And even in well prepared meat the first bite is something I need to suffer through before I can start enjoying the meal.

To me it tastes exactly what it is. A piece of animal that died. And I have no moral qualms. It just tastes bad to me.

Most things we eat are chosen because they taste good in combination with other things, and better than the sum of the individual ingredients eaten separately. Eating a stick of butter probably isn't appetizing, but neither would your examples of eating pure salt or unprocessed pepper unless you have particularly odd tastes.

I might be weird because I love salt. I snack on it. And butter by itself is not appetizing however melted butter with just salt is delicious. As for pepper and other seasonings you are right. They don't taste good by themselves.

Many foods are delicious by themselves. Fruits, nuts, vegetables, legumes. Some cooked unsalted, some raw.

And in case of those, taste can be acquired. For example unsalted rice at first tastes bad, but when I ate it few times when I was hungry I started liking it.

Huh? A very high quality cut of beef, when well prepared, does not need any seasoning at all.

>Try preparing meat yourself without any seasoning

that's how most people eat it, unless you consider salt a seasoning

drowning food in hot sauce and ranch dressing is exclusively american cuisine

A medium rare New York strip is, to me, delicious, and it doesn't need anything, not even salt. I don't eat such things anymore, but still: delicious.

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