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I have a love of crunchy foods. I mainly love the crunchy sound as I eat them.

Is there an evolutionary theory of why I might have evolved to love these? The only theory I could think of is that they're a marker of freshness in some vegetables. But nature never made anything as crunchy as the crunchy foods I love.



Cooked meat can have a crunchy burned exterior, which indicates wonderful tasty easily-digestible protein, great for our energy intensive brains.


Perhaps the crunchiness is related to a sense of safety? If you were being hunted, you'd hog down your food and wouldn't really get a chance to savor the sound it makes when you eat it.

(I'm completely riffing though)


Bones, and the marrow hiding within.




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