Blame Your Taste Buds for Liking Fat: Receptor for Tasting Fat Identified in Humans

But blame your big, fat, gluttonous, weak, lily fatty-livered self for eating too much of it.

Why do we like fatty foods so much? We can blame our taste buds. Our tongues apparently recognize and have an affinity for fat, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. They have found that variations in a gene can make people more or less sensitive to the taste of fat.

Taste buds cannot grasp an eating utensil, lift a hand to the mouth or swallow.

Blame yourself.

Period.