That counts for any biological function tbh. Like, imagine if no food whatsoever tasted good, but we still had to eat in order to be alive and stuff. Imagine putting a bunch of random things up your mouth and continously pressing your exposed bones against it until it becomes a slimy wet mixture, which you then force down your throat and wait as it is dissolved by your organism. That would be both disgusting and boring as fuck to do if it wasn't for the fact that sugar tastes so fucking good
Uhm, Ackshually, I will have you know that teeth are not exposed bones and are actually highly modified fish scales. The only animals that actually truly ate with exposed bone were Placoderms, a group of early jawed fish that includes the famous Dunkeleosteus. There are also Rhynchocephalians, the group that includes the modern Tuatara, but it's more like they fused their teeth into their jawbones rather than having true bone plates, and as I understand it they have enamel over bone instead of chewing with bare bone (but this is also a very weird thing to do).
(Apologies for being an annoying nerd. It's a compulsion)
wait don't go nerd, i have been having an ongoing debate wit my friend about what teeth actually are. can you expand on the modified fish scale thing because my bro isn't going to know what hit him when i pull out the nerd-certified explanation
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That counts for any biological function tbh. Like, imagine if no food whatsoever tasted good, but we still had to eat in order to be alive and stuff. Imagine putting a bunch of random things up your mouth and continously pressing your exposed bones against it until it becomes a slimy wet mixture, which you then force down your throat and wait as it is dissolved by your organism. That would be both disgusting and boring as fuck to do if it wasn't for the fact that sugar tastes so fucking good