A new SBS podcast series called “Bad Taste” will make you reconsider the perception of good taste.

It is a six-part podcast series, tracing food back to where it came from and dissecting how Australian palettes came to be.

Jessica Ho, Food writer and host of Bad Taste, told Deborah Knight why people are so decisive on certain foods.

“It is about taste, it is about what you have grown up with and what is normalised,” she said.

“It is definitely exposure and I think now because we are so multi-cultural and everyone, especially in Melbourne, are so obsessed with food, everyone’s palettes are changing and more accepting.

“We do eat with our eyes and if we see something that looks amazing, we think it tastes amazing and a lot of the time it doesn’t stack up to how good it looks.”

Ho said the first episode of “Bad Taste” analyses spam and why it is so decisive.

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