Idealogian

There's Always Room For JELL-O^®

Scans Show Why We Always Have Room for Chocolate

"You sit down to your eight-course meal for your birthday and you have gone though all the appetizers and entrees and just as you feel you can't fit one more thing in your tummy, then they bring the dessert menu or the dessert cart rolls by and suddenly you discover you have room for the chocolate fondant," [Dr. Jay Gottfried of the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience at University College London] said in a telephone interview.

"This is specific satiation -- you are full of one thing but not another."

This only confirms what my younger sister used to insist (back when she was still my "little sister") when she had been too full to finish her vegetables but was eager to have some cookies: "There's still some room in my dessert stomach!"

None of this, however, is anything new:

Abaye said, "...Room for sweets can always be found."
        -Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Megilah, 7b