There is a lot of research on taste and why people like and dislike certain foods. Some people have a large amount of taste buds in their mouth and others have less. This is genetically determined. The ones with a large amount are called "Supertasters" They cannot as a rule tolerate spicy and hot types of food as much as the people with the lesser amounts of taste buds. I would imagine there are a lot of people in between. Children when they are young tend to have more taste buds and they are more sensitive and then they lose some of them and they grow less sensitive as they grow older. Then there is learned behaviors too. Plus the sense of smell is formed extermemly early in life probably in the fetus and is such a strong part of taste it is more a part of it than people realize. So babies learn to become familiar with the smells of what their parents are cooking even before they are born. I think it is all very fascinating!!! I don't know how you can separate the differences between what is genetic and what is learned. It is a complex combination of both! One thing I really believe is that you should never force children or adults to eat what they dislike. Taste is taste and unless someone has a pathologic eating disorder they will not starve themselves to death!!! My tastes tell me I LOVE a nice ripe summer tomato!!!! and I wish the diner would learn how to cook their fried potatoes better!

The canister is not very old, this was a hobby a few years back, take the musical movement and put it on any metal canister or tin box you had around to repurpose it....Last year, I saw vendors doing this at a craft show with newer metal lunch boxes..I received one last year as a joke gift, it was a Christmas canister that played When Irish Eyes are smiling..LOL

All very interestng arguments; however, I am convinced that all the CFC hype is just so much mfr BS just to get new patent royalties and to charge more for equipment. EPA and other gov't agencies don't care a hoot about atmospheric CFC's. My brother lives in a large Virginia city. Their City refuse collection department requires junk refrigerators to be placed by the curb by a specific early morning hour and the disposer must call a number before a specific time to report a refrigerator on the curb for pick up. He told me - and I believe him- that he placed an old refrigerator which was still fully charged with F12 by the curb, called per the City's rules. Soon afterwards, a city vehicle pulled up outside, a man went to the refrigerator for three or four minutes and left. He walked out to see what the man did. He found that the city employee had cut the refrigerant line and dumped all the F12 and had placed a sticker on the refrigerator that read "No Freon". Later that day, a truck arrived, loaded the refrigerator and hauled it away. I have access to a municipal refuse disposal site. County trucks pick up refrigerators from various county public refuse collection sites and haul them to the county refuse disposal site. They are picked up with a machine that regularly damages the refrigerant systems. The refrigerators are off-loaded at the county disposal site by dumping them off the truck. Heavy equipment is used to push the refrigerators - along with the washing machines, driers, bicycles, etc. - into a pile about thirty feet high. Periodically, a large truck comes and hauls all the crushed junk to some recycle center elsewhere. NONE of the refrigerant is evacuated for recyle. I filed a report, nothing ever became of it!! Likewise, junk automobiles go to the junk yards, I don't regularly go to pull my own used auto parts but when I do, I see evidence that no CFC is evacuated for recycle. It is not economically feasible to recycle CFC's; HOWEVER, if CFC spillage were such a problem, there would be better controls. It's all hype to protect new patents and royalties and to justify mfrs' gouging the public for more profit on replacement equipment. If they can make repairing a system expensive enough - like extreme prices to recharge a system - people will buy new equipment; and they do! When our grand leaders in DC start sending inspectors out to find and penalize people who dump CFCs then you guys can continue your argument!! Otherwise, its all irrelevant!!!

georgia, thanks for posting the above. I found it fascinating. I went through my state and see I am in a minority. Some of the terms I had only heard when living in other parts of the country, e.g. when I lived in West Virginia, I heard the frequent, quaint use of the "anymore" described. Also, a frequent southern usage I'd not thought about in years is the "I might could do that...." I also use "coke" generically to mean any "soft drink." Other expressions were completely unknown to me, e.g. the name of the night before Halloween (?)