It may sound as if we made this up, but we didn’t. Researchers from Innsbruck University in Austria studied almost 1,000 people and came to this conclusion: people who enjoy bitter food are nasty, bitter people.
Duplicitous. Self-serving. Cold-hearted. Vain, selfish, sadistic, narcissistic—even psychopathic. Turns out that the people who would be sorted into Slytherin have something else in common. They have a particular liking for tastes that the rest of us characterize as bitter. We’re talking about radishes and quinine, unsweetened cocoa and strong coffee.