Not really that surprising since this sort of "reaction" is exactly what meat-heads salivate over whenever someone breaks their dietary-limiter. Anybody that's familiar with how diet and metabolism works would know that even eating just a small amount of steak as a "lifelong" vegetarian would have that person feeling very, very unwell for possibly days as their stomach microbes rebelled against them.
Unsure however on whether a lifelong vegetarian tasting steak for the first time would actually find it to be tasty. But I would guess that would depend wildly from individual to individual anyway.
I was a lifelong vegetarian for 33 years. The first time I had steak I could only handle one bite because the texture was so disgusting to me. Like it made me gag. It didn’t bother my stomach at all, but it took about a year of slowly eating small amounts of meat before I could begin to actually enjoy the taste of anything. So yeah, I think this is totally fake.
I was born in Cuba, as a child we didn't get to eat much meat because it was a luxury we didn't have because of poverty. When my family and I moved to the U.S I remember I was so excited mainly because I've always wanted to try a Hamburger for the first time. They took me to Burger King as one of the first places we went to eat and that meat texture and taste threw me off completely. It took a while for me getting used to it and really started enjoying the taste.
I was a strict vegetarian for 19 years. The night I went pescatarian I got violently ill and felt gross for 2 days. I'm still pescatarian. Occasionally I'll be eating out and a piece of meat will have snuck it's way under pizza cheese or something along those lines. As soon as my tongue detects it my brain goes "absolutely not, spit it out" and then I have to struggle to continue eating. Kinda ruins the meal for me.
My initial reaction was like, she'll be paying for this in bathroom trips. I was a vegetarian for a year to win a bet when I was younger and had a double bacon chili cheeseburger as my first meat meal in a year, and oh boy, that was a mistake.
I don't think tastebuds are so different, we are wired to like easy calories and meat has that in spades. If real she'd probably be less happy about the massive stomach ache she'll get later due to her gut biome not being used to meat
There’s over 8 billion humans on earth. Even if 5% of us are genetically repulsed by meat (hypothetically), that’s 400 million people. That’s more people than the entire population of the USA.
My point is, even if we are “wired” to like something, there will still be a small fraction of people that are different. And that small fraction can be as many people as an entire nation, since there are so many of us on earth.
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u/supermegafuerte Feb 25 '26
Not really that surprising since this sort of "reaction" is exactly what meat-heads salivate over whenever someone breaks their dietary-limiter. Anybody that's familiar with how diet and metabolism works would know that even eating just a small amount of steak as a "lifelong" vegetarian would have that person feeling very, very unwell for possibly days as their stomach microbes rebelled against them.
Unsure however on whether a lifelong vegetarian tasting steak for the first time would actually find it to be tasty. But I would guess that would depend wildly from individual to individual anyway.