Stealing chips from someone else's plate makes them taste better, study finds
Oliver Partridge
Eating food from other people's plates has been found to enhance its flavour, a cheeky scientific study has found. Valentin Skryabin, of the Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education in Moscow, conducted a study exploring whether breaking moral rules could heighten the pleasure of eating. His findings, published in Food Quality and Preference, revealed that participants judged identical chips as tasting considerably better when obtained through underhanded means. Most striking