I ate a too hot omelette and burnt the roof of my mouth again.
Now it feels sensitive and fragile, again.
Why did we as a species, whom are omnivores, develop such thin mouth roofs?
Hippos can crush entire watermelons with their mouths, why didn’t we get a tough inner roof.
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Your body telling you something dumdum. ;)
perhaps
Did people stop feeling the temperature of their food with their lips before shoveling it down their gullet? Am I super old? (Still sub 40)
i was starving and that omelette was reallly fucking good (I made it)
Starving = oh so hungy.
Sorry your brain betrayed you.
The answer is almost certainly because of how much brain we’re trying to fit in our heads.
Evolution has already given us hugely weakened jaw muscles, shrinking jaws, painful birth, years of helpless infancy and chronic sinus problems, all in the singular pursuit of MORE ROOM FOR BRAIN.
To be honest I’d say all of those are higher up on the priority list than ‘thicker mouth skin for when I eat a thing too hot too quickly once every couple years’.
Dam we got trolled by our evolutionary lineage.
Although birth pain is heavily dependent on position of birth. Western style births where the mother lays on her back is a fetish.
Most indigenous and other nations perform standing or squatting births, or other positions which are much safer for the mother.
AND most of you western bastards shit in a half-standing 90-degree position, instead of squatting. Your colon isn’t built for that. Get a toilet stool.
standing or squatting births, or other positions which are much safer
Interesting, I was initially skeptical but this does seem probably the case. Western culture is so weird, dangit.
Stems from medical misogyny dating back to the Victorian era. Birthing on one’s back is easier for a doctor to observe, and obstetrics centers the doctor over the person actually giving birth. Everything to stick it to the midwives, who actually knew what they were doing.
infinite punishment on western civilization
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Which animal ever eats something too hot that burns their mouth? How do you know they don’t burn their mouths in the same way? Do you think hippos use the top of their mouth or their teeth to crush watermelons? Is your fragile mouth the only thing stopping you from crushing entire watermelons?
It’s probably an advantage. You want your mouth to hurt so you stop there rather than damaging something more internal like your throat or stomach.
☹️ I can’t deny that is pretty true
I’m sure the hippo wouldn’t eat burning hot watermelons.
Can confirm I am a hippo and burned my mouth on 13 hot pockets that were also cold in the middle.
smh everyone knows you need to let them sit!
I bet they’re thick inner jaw lining would be less effected by it though
Brb
When we stopped eating twigs in favor of nuts and berries.
Note: this is an entirely made up fact.
In nineteen-ninety…
Yes, but we started eating Doritoes and they will fuck you up. :)
You’re doing it wrong… you gotta crush up the whole bag all at once and then poke a straw in there like it’s a Capri-Sun.
Can confirm, way better with a spoon or straw
“dust-sun”
@doomsdayrs probably, to regulate brain temperature. There is a theory on yawning that its purpose may be brain cooling. So, the roof is basically a thermal interface.
If that hypothesis is true, I’ll be dammed. 😭
@doomsdayrs Feel the roof of your mouth with your tongue after you yawn - it will be a little bit cool to the touch, because of its thermal conductivity.
Also, if you have a yawn attack, but are not sleepy - eat something cold, like ice cream.
This is according to the University of Albany research.
