Originally Posted by cordelli

This is pretty funny.

Just last night I was watching the PBS show on Human Senses and it was talking about how and why we taste and smell things. One of the things they found was people have significantly different amounts of taste buds and that's why some people have way more sensitive pallets then others.

I'm guessing that anybody who believes Olive Garden offers better Italian food then what is available even at a highway rest stop in Italy (which totally blows away 95% of the Italian food available in the US for example) is coming in on the low end of the taste bud scale

Maybe for Steak and maybe for Seafood America may be up near the top, but for anything ethnic it's usually totally modified for our tastes, and tastes no where near as good as what it's trying to be.