Those Spice Eating Contests Would Go Wild. Those People Who Eat Blowfish And Jellyfish? Grapefruits.

those spice eating contests would go wild. those people who eat blowfish and jellyfish? grapefruits. caffeine!! there's a lot of foods we're technically not supposed to eat but we do it anyways because we're like that

You know how certain tastes allow you to know that you shouldn't eat something, though humans are weird so we do it anyways?

Was thinking how certain foods are bad for animals, like citrus foods

What if aliens' sense of taste indicated things that could kill them

What if to aliens the entire flavor profile we call sour meant poison

What if a human walked up to one of these aliens and took a bite out of a lemon slice without breaking eye contact

Could be a dominance move, a lead into a prank, or just being oblivious that from the aliens' point of view the human was attempting suicide right in front of them when the human is just a weirdo who eats lemons

These are the things I think of when I should be sleeping

Please elaborate on this idea if you want to