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Why do people have different food tastes if we all have the same taste buds?
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Much of our taste: Comes from what we are exposed to when we are young, as in cultural exposures. Some of it obviously it intrinsic to each individual, just like why are people's temperaments different, even identical twins raised in the same family!
Answered 1/7/2015
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