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.

  • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    18 hours ago

    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.