You take bite of piping hot pizza and burn the roof of your mouth, or you suck down a frosty milkshake and get 'brain freeze.' (Yes I know heat can burn and cold can freeze.)
Why as humans do we enjoy hot food? Or why do we enjoy cold food?
Now I am not talking about why we cook food, some foods can not be eaten raw or uncooked. And that some foods require a heating process to amalgamate or coagulate into a final food. Also I am not talking about food safety and that we have to keep certain foods at temperatures for spoilage reasons. I also understand that some foods are easier to digest in a warm or cold state. I am asking why we like foods hot or cold?
Other species do not heat their dinner to a temperature to enjoy, or chill it as a treat. Is it solely because man has the ability to control and use fire? That we can refrigerate items?
I personally know that we can be temperature sensitive, that hot or cold things can bother an achy tooth.
Why do we like our foods at different temperatures? I am sure there have been studies done, but I want to know what everyone else thinks.
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