I ate a too hot omelette and burnt the roof of my mouth again.
Now it feels sensitive and fragile, again.
Why did we as a species, whom are omnivores, develop such thin mouth roofs?
Hippos can crush entire watermelons with their mouths, why didn’t we get a tough inner roof.
I’m sure the hippo wouldn’t eat burning hot watermelons.
Can confirm I am a hippo and burned my mouth on 13 hot pockets that were also cold in the middle.
smh everyone knows you need to let them sit!
Brb
I bet they’re thick inner jaw lining would be less effected by it though
@doomsdayrs probably, to regulate brain temperature. There is a theory on yawning that its purpose may be brain cooling. So, the roof is basically a thermal interface.
If that hypothesis is true, I’ll be dammed. 😭
@doomsdayrs Feel the roof of your mouth with your tongue after you yawn - it will be a little bit cool to the touch, because of its thermal conductivity.
Also, if you have a yawn attack, but are not sleepy - eat something cold, like ice cream.
This is according to the University of Albany research.
Does the thickness skin impact it’s ability to feel pain?
It doesn’t. Burn a slip of paper with a lighter. Now burn an orange. Notice how the the outer layer reacts to the fire?
Your nerve endings also exist in the outer most layer (your mouth vs your deeper flesh)
Are you a mammal? Congratulations, you have TRPV1 receptors in your mucus membranes (avian supremacy ftw). They exist to keep potato brain mammals from eating hot things. These will fuck up your insides. Apparently enough of a problem that mammals needed them. Fun fact: this is enough of a problem that ancestral peppers evolved a means to exploit it and exclude mammals.
But off topic. There’s no quantity of flesh that will make your mouth heat proof. Turns out first degree burns still hurt like fuck.
When we stopped eating twigs in favor of nuts and berries.
Note: this is an entirely made up fact.
Which animal ever eats something too hot that burns their mouth? How do you know they don’t burn their mouths in the same way? Do you think hippos use the top of their mouth or their teeth to crush watermelons? Is your fragile mouth the only thing stopping you from crushing entire watermelons?
What other animal eats hot food? Has it ever been something to select for?
Has your ability to procreate or the survival of your offspring ever been threatened by burning the roof of your mouth?
There is your answer.
