Superman's super taste-buds must make eating crazy for him. I mean, all his super-senses, really. His microscopic vision - he can literally see the germs crawling over everything, all over his ham-steak or whatever he's about to chaw his Kryptonian jaws down around. He strikes me as a ham-steak kind of guy.
But any time he's about to eat anything, he can smell any miniscule taints, when he digs in and starts chewing he can taste all of the infinitesimal parts per billion of human skin cells and dust and hair particles, and evaporated sweat and worse than that probably! It's amazing he can choke down a meal!
But then let's take a step back and think of it in his terms, though, folks. Because: he knows. He knows that this stuff can't hurt him. It might be a little gross to contemplate, maybe. But he's secure in the knowledge that his super-human immune system can delete anything potentially malicious right out of existence. He's not worried about the teeny weenie beasties crawling on his ham-steak!
And therein lies the lesson for you and me! Because guess what? Our immune systems can handle it too. We're pretty powerful. Sure there are some nasty germ villains, far stronger than ordinary mortal germs, who can take us down if we let them get a toehold in our Fortress of Intestinal Fortitude. You know the infamous roll call of that Rogue's Gallery: Trichinosis Man. Ms. Salmonella. Dr. Campylobacter Jejuni.
But aside from the big guys, the heavy hitters, the legion of doom so to speak - for the most part, 99.999% of the dudes camped out in microscale campsites on the surface of our food - our immune system is plenty powerful enough to deal with that threat. And if we still feel a little creeped out, just by the fact that they're there, well...a quick surreptitious blast of the ol' heat vision will take care of the problem nicely.
Hope you like that ham-steak crispy!
1 comment:
I don't think any of this would bother Superman---if our food looks this way to him, it always has, and that's what he's used to. Same goes for the smell and taste. And human senses are sort of calibrated by what is physiologically recognized and what is learned as safe vs. dangerous, so I would think his would be as well---to scale for his super-self.
I think of my own immune system and senses in much the same way. I think you kind of build up your immune system when you trust it to work properly. I don't want to fully endorse eating dangerously handled food, because I have read articles where people developed lifelong gastrointestinal problems after bouts of food poisoning. But on the whole, I find you can be a bit more lax than today's stringent practices usually suggest, and you'll come out just fine.
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