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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
I had a cat, Pepper, that went insane for hot peppers and would steal them in preference to actual meat. He'd get into hot wing boxes to lick the sauce then eat the chicken.
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It occurs to me that odd genetic twists could make certain common foods and scents either utterly vile or function as a super stimulus.
Example: Sandalwood is one of my favorite scents. But some insects find it repulsive. Part of the reason the scent was popular, it was a lovely scent that drove off bugs. Picture a parahuman with a broad resistence to toxins based on insect DNA. He can't stand one of the most common scents used in soaps and perfumes throughout the West and Asia.
There is a type of alcoholic were alcohol acts as a superstimulant on their brains. Much like Flynderan's cat and the hot peppers. A minor glitch in brain chemistry could make many common items from apples to lipstick dangerously addictive.
You could spin many odd problems out of this. Odd, but fully realistic.