Physiology of Taste Buds

I haven’t found time, or should I say patience to write anything last week.
Last week was socially extremely active.  We celebrated two festivals.. Swarna Gowri and Ganesha habba. Both are major festivals here. Ganesha is celebrated until 5 days at our home. So we had an extended festival.  We had lots of relatives and friends coming home on all 5 days. I hadn’t seen many of my neighbours and even if I had seen them, I didn’t know their names. In our rushed lives, guess the time spent in “harate over the compound wall” has decreased and so also any bonding between neighbours. This week was a good time to make up for all that.

Festivals mean pooja and then lots of good food. Two days of non-stop sweets..obbattu., payasa,  modak,  kadubu, .. mmmm..  bajjis, bondas, poori.. wow. It was an amazingly non-stop feasting time! The last thing I wanted to think of is about any weight gained.
What is the rest of the year for .. burn it!!! Strangely, I always seem to think of weight gain when presented with good food.

Another interesting thought came to my mind after eating all those sweets. We seem to be able to eat the spicy bajjis and bondas one after the other.. and savour each of them.
Also, we can savour the modaks, obbattus and payasa well… but after eating one sweet, our taste buds seem to give up on sensing the taste of sweetness of another food. I am sure we all have seen that.. if we drink coffee right after eating a sweet, we seem to lose the taste of the coffee.

What happens with the sweet taste bud? Does it give up? Or is there a message in there?.. Don’t eat more than one!

Happy Gowri & Ganesha to all!