Delicate Taste Buds

I love the folks who are either foodies or enophiles or boozophiles.

They are, almost to a person, fairly generous with samples and long-winded explanations of their fabulous good taste in whatever the fuck they are into.  Truth be told, I suppose the list above could be expanded to religion, politics, and philosophy as well, but the samples of those are not nearly as welcome.

But mostly, these folks in their petty passions give us an insight into, what appears to me, a deep-seated human need to "excel" and be considered an "expert" in some esoteric field.  I don't know the roots of such a need.  I think that is somewhat tied up in status and mating and some other primitive limbic nonsense.

But I am fairly certain that the variability of the connection between some sensors on a tongue and the processing center a couple inches away really isn't all that variable from person to person.

People love to be snootier than thou.  People want others to count their opinions as "the most important" they make efforts to do this by any number of means.  They do it across all subjects.

Look, what tastes good to you tastes good to you.  Your political opinion is your political opinion.  When folks start lecturing you on how their opinion of something is better than your opinion of something, you can rest assured that they, are for that moment in time, telling you to shut up and do what you are told because they are better than you.