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Genes offer excuse for beer fear

Greg Nelson

Direction if possible, please 

Could some kind person give me direction as to..."the Teutonic cultural sweet tooth". Being, for the most part, of Norwegian and German extraction I'm curious about a meme dealing with a Teutonic sweet tooth. I ran a quick search but only came up with... "Tannfé (tooth-gift) was the name of a gift which was given (and in Iceland is still given) to a child when it gets its first tooth." (Rydberg's Teutonic Mythology)

mmmm beer

beer and boobies predominate my entire cultural landscape

Nick Fisher

A pedant writes: 

Actually the causative agent of malaria is not an amoeba, but an Apicomplexan parasite of the genus Plasmodium.

Richard Russell

Bitter experience 

So if the "non-tasters" can't detect the bitterness why is it called "bitter"?