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You know, I don't think I've talked about food on here for a while, at least not more than in passing. That can't possibly be right. Talk to me about food, people! Actually, I know, I can have a poll - not only will it allow me to indulge my curiosity, but I can use it for reference when you come to dinner.

[Poll #1161910]

And finally, if you're so inclined, give me your favourite recipes, tell me about wonderful meals or give me anecdotes about hilarious food mishaps.

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I feel as if I cheated on the last question.

Mm, me too. If I had to give up faculties in order everything would go before sight adequate to read and the rudiments of cognition, but since "touch" was included in the second option I wrote it off with barely a thought. Not that one could really appreciate food without being able to register its consistency, but still.

Worse than that, if you lost your sense of touch you would bite through your tongue because you couldn't tell where it was, and burn your hands and break your toes without noticing and get gangrene, and be unable to do any personal hygiene whatsoever properly - all the things that happen to people with leprosy.

I don't know what I would choose. My hearing is nearly useless in a crowd, but I wouldn't want to lose music. I couldn't lose sight because I would be unable to do anything, likewise touch. I like tasting my food a lot, but smell is also important so I can tell when something is unsafe to eat, or when there's a gas leak or a fire. I think I would lose taste because it's the least dangerous.

I couldn't lose touch; I like sex about exactly as much as I like food, and would feel similarly bereft without it. It would be hearing for me, as although I enjoy it, I don't get nearly as much out of music as most people appear to.

Nah, sex is all in the mind for me. I doubt I'd enjoy it appreciably less if my sense of touch vanished.

Everybody you had sex with would!

Point

*grin* I did think of you as I wrote it.

To be fair, although my technical cheaty answer was "I'd rather lose my sense of smell 'again' because it would make no difference anyway", if I did have to choose one of my remaining four senses to lose it'd be taste, so my non-cheaty answer would be the same.

I wouldn't lose sight, sound or touch because they're vitally important for actually getting things done, and on some occasions surviving, whereas taste is mostly for pleasure and rarely actually functional. (I'd have to be more careful about food going off, certainly, but that seems a smaller risk in general than e.g. failing to hear a car when crossing the road.)