Tasty Life... The Savory Connection

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Ever wondered how taste evolves over lifetime? Or is it the other way round? As in, how life evolves with taste?

An infant consumes BLAND...  milk
Subsequently babies start with SWEET stuff... mashed apples
Soon enough kids are fed SALT... regular home food
Teenagers start liking SOUR food... tangy chicken, lime juice
Adults move on to BITTER... whiskey, bitter-gourd

Is that how Life in general also moves?

BLAND... No relations, No friends, Basic needs paramount...
SWEET... Develop parental connection, Unconditional Love...
SALT... Friends add the spice (& salt) to life...
SOUR... Disagreements; Professional (give & take) relations...
BITTER... Broken relationships

Just came to mind and I wrote it... Nothing much to add beyond this... Basically, as the title of my blog suggests its just to provoke a thought... Think about it...

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