Do you scrape the burnt bits off a piece of toast? Recent research suggests that might not be a bad idea…
It’s more than likely you still have some of the habits around eating and cooking that you learned from adults when you were young, maybe without even realizing it. Perhaps you never lick food off your knife, or you always throw salt over your shoulder to ward off evil spirits.
Many of these quirks are probably nothing more than superstition, but one, in particular, may have been unknowingly prescient a few decades ago and grounded in a scientific discovery that was yet to happen.
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