• Question: why do eggs smell bad?

    Asked by lafonda to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 26 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      We are repulsed from rotten food so that we don’t eat it and get ill. If you think eggs smell bad, that’s because part of you thinks that you shouldn’t eat them.

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      You’ve evolved a very clever mechanism to detect stuff that’s bad for you. Food that has decayed and will cause you to become sick smells bad because your body knows that you’ll be unwell if you eat it.

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