Food Taste & Allergies

Does food taste better when you are drinking? Dangerous Dave talks about a study that says food does taste better with booze. Plus, worst cities for people with allergies.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please keep steeper in the din with dangerous date. Well,
if you ever wonder why brunch tastes so much better
than a normal meal, it could be something to do
with the booze that you're pounding. According to science, alcohol
makes food taste better. Now people are talking about a
research study that was originally published ten years ago, and
people are starting to talk about it again because it

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makes sense to this phenomenon. So they gave women alcohol,
half of them a saline solution. Afterwards, they all ate lunch,
and the women who had alcohol prior to eating said
their food tasted better. They ate more than women who
didn't have any alcohol. Similarly, they did a test with men.
They gave them vodka orange juice, so, in other words,
a screwdriver. Other guys just got orange juice. The study

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concluded that those who drank the alcohol increased their appetite
for high fat, savory foods. The most important interesting part
of these studies suggested that we feel rewarded when we
eat high fat foods after drinking alcohol. So there you
have it. If you aren't feeling your meal, you could
always add a little bit of booze. It might make
things taste better. Hmmm, maybe I should get everybody drunk

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before I do the cooking next time. Did you know
it's Allergy Awareness Month? You might want to pop a
pill before you visit any of these cities right now.
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation ranked the top one hundred
cities based on how much coughing, sneezing, and wheezing they
can cause. The worst cities for allergies are based on
things like pollen count sales of allergy medications, and how

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easy it is to get an appointment with an allergy specialist.
So the top ten most challenging place is top one, Wichita, Kansas,
followed by New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Memphis, Little Rock, Arkansas, Raleigh,
North Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, Greenville, South Carolina, and Greensboro, North Carolina.
At the other end of the list, the best cities
for allergies Paullen count's typically lower, fairly easy to see

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the doctor. Boston tops the list, followed by Salt Lake City, Akron, Ohio,
San Diego, Cleveland, Boise, Provo, Utah, Madison, Wisconsin, Ogden, Utah,
and Denver, Colorado. It is allergies season, and I'll tell
you it's nothing to sneeze at. Tune it again for
another episode of Deeper in the Den with dangerous daved
right here.