Such a meal also should balance tastes savory, a little sour or bitter maybe, perhaps some sweet and salt and textures, from chewy to succulent to crisp.

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Perhaps it is the intense hatred for bitter divisional rivals.

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Perhaps this is why their personal rivalry is so deep and so bitter.

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We may not use labels like "bitter" (except when paying our bills, perhaps), but most of us treat different kinds of money very differently.

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