Ticklish taste buds?

Recently I commented somewhere that I'd like if we could all eat dog biscuits, simple, full nutrition in a bowl, though it would get boring.

I'm starting to wonder if perhaps our complicated relationship with food is a way of us training ourselves/ working out our way of dealing with our complex relationships with each other.

Spending time with certain people is akin to eating a certain kind of diet... - it's good to vary your diet, same way it's good to spend time with different people, a wide variety of people if possible, the greater the variety the wider your understanding of life, I think.

Some people are nurturing and delicious, some are moreish, perhaps addictive, but can be empty calories, they can come cheap from a takeaway, the less work you have to put in the more attractive they might be to spend time with. They might come in bright packaging and be expert at marketing, but they can be ultimately fattening, encouraging laziness in your brain, bile in your gallstones...

Really good relationships take a bit of work, but you can grow to enjoy the cooking, savour it even, taking little nibbles as you go. There might be super good for you people out there, that take amazing nose pinching and strength of character to even begin to stomach, but they're such hard work that you'll probably never find out - who's the equivalent of brussel sprouts in your life?

Finding balance with people is every bit as complicated, messy, scientifically difficult and enjoyable as finding it with your food (if not even more), and in my view it might even be more important for your overall health.

The cleaning up afterwards is a whole nuther story.

This whole post probably owes a lot to Cilla Black and the old Blind date questions "If you were a dessert...." "If you were a fruit...." "If you were a dinner... which one would you be and why?"