Kuyinkulumompikiswano ehlukanise abathandi bokudla okusheshayo amashumi eminyaka: uyawasusa amakhukhamba ku-burger, noma uyawashiya lapho? Ngenhlanhla, ososayensi sebeyixazulule unomphela le mpikiswano.
Ucwaningo luveza ukuthi izingcezu eziluhlaza okotshani empeleni zithuthukisa ukunambitheka kwesemishi noma ibhega. Ngokuqondile, baqinisekisa ukuthi ukungezwa kwama-gherkins kuthuthukisa ukunambitheka, ukubukeka nokuthungwa kwe-burger.
Ama-Pickles athuthukisa umuzwa
I-asidi yekhukhamba efakwe emanzini anosawoti inqamula ukunambitheka kwe-umami ecebile yenyama futhi yengeza ukushwabana okwanelisayo. Lokhu kuza ngemuva kokuthi ucwaningo luveze ukuthi abantu abangamaphesenti angu-51 bakhetha ukususa i-pickle yezingane ku-burger yabo.
Umbuzo wokuthi ingabe amakhukhamba ayingxenye ebalulekile ye-burger efanelekile kube yisihloko esiyimpikiswano eshubile emhlabeni wonke iminyaka, kanye nengxabano kaphayinaphu on-pizza. Umbiko wakamuva ugqamisa izizathu ezimbalwa zokuthi kungani ungeza ama-gherkins kwandisa umuzwa we-oral-somatosensory ukudla i-hamburger.
Ama-pickle ngokungangabazeki angesinye sezithako eziphikisana kakhulu ku-burger, futhi inani labantu libonakala lihlukene phakathi phakathi kwezithandani nabantu abazondayo. Kodwa yini ngempela ngama-burgers awenza alutheke kwabanye kodwa abenyanyekayo kwabanye?
Isayensi iphakamisa izici ezihlukene zezinzwa—ukubona, umsindo, ukuthungwa, ukunambitha, nokuhogela—zidlala izindima ezihlukene kubathengi abahlukahlukene, kodwa ekugcineni ukugcina amakhukhamba ku-burger kuyindlela engcono kakhulu yokwandisa ukunambitheka . Izakhiwo zayo zezinzwa zihambisana ngokuphelele nezinye izithako ku-burger.
Lokhu kuphikisana nemiphumela yocwaningo, lapho abangaphezu kwesigamu sabahlanganyeli bathi bazokhetha ukuqeda ikhukhamba elifakwe emanzini. Isizathu esivame kakhulu salesi sinqumo sasiwukuthi abawuthandi ukunambitheka, ecashunwe amaphesenti angu-23 abaphendulile. Amanye amaphesenti angu-16 awakujabuleli ukuthungwa kwemifino, futhi amaphesenti angu-4 athi awakaze azame ama-pickle kodwa awazange athande umqondo wawo. Idlanzana elingamaphesenti angu-12 laze lathi liyawathanda amakhukhamba, kodwa likhetha ukuwadla angenalutho.
Abaneminyaka ephakathi kuka-35 no-54 yibona abavumelana kakhulu nokwengezwa kwayo, kanti abangamaphesenti angu-37 bathi bangathanda ibhega ukuba ibe nabo ngaphakathi. Intsha ephakathi kweminyaka engu-18 no-24 yibona okungenzeka ukuthi ifuna ukufakwa.
Kwenza ukudla kukhange nakakhulu
Embikweni wakhe, uthi i-asidi yamakhukhamba isiza ekutholeni amanothi acebile umami (noma anosawoti) we-burger futhi alinganise ukunambitheka okuhlukile. Ukuthungwa kwamakhukhamba kuphinde kuhluke kahle nezinye izithako ze-burger, okwenza 'ukuluma' okukhanga kakhulu. I-crunch enamandla engeza i-pickle ekulumeni isiza ukudonsa ukunaka emlonyeni, okwenza kube nesipiliyoni sokudla okwanelisayo.
Ukuthinta okuluhlaza phakathi kwe-brown ne-beige nakho kwenza ibhega ibukeke ithandeka, futhi ukulunywa kokuqala kwanoma yikuphi ukudla kuhlala kumehlo.
Kodwa-ke, ayikho indlela elungile noma engalungile yokudla i-burger, noma kunjalo, ukugcina ama-pickle ngaphakathi kwe-burger kuyindlela engcono kakhulu yokuthola amandla aphelele wokulunywa ngakunye.