poking at it with a fork to ascertain the flexibility and chewiness
considering its similarities to other foods I’ve disliked
considering its differences from other foods I’ve liked
knowing that there is an ingredient in it that I hate
trying to chop it with a knife and feeling the gristliness and hearing that telltale horrible creaking noise of gristle and noping right out of that situation
this is how humans naturally decided whether or not to eat unfamiliar foods in the wild thousands of years ago
our senses interact with each other to protect us, so your nose alerts you to an incoming bad taste before you put it in your mouth so you don’t end up eating the bad thing and dying
this is how we survived as a species
it is perfectly rational
it makes perfect sense
so stop
Also if its called something like water caserole you can usually guess before hand
honestly such a power move to headcanon popular cartoon characters belonging to homophobic/transphobic creators as gay and/or trans knowing it definitely makes them seethe in rage
what I’m saying is danny phantom is trans and butch hartman can’t do jackshit about it
one of my favorite tropes of all time is when the author tries to replace curse words with a more ‘family friendly’ alternative or invent new words for worldbuilding purposes but they use existing words that make the whole thing unintentionally hilarious out of context