THE NAIGAJE
The "Catnip" Effect: Tomatoes
This metabolic trade-off serves as a metaphor for RD’s entire mission. To gain the human perspective and the ability to consume “poisonous” chocolate, he has had to sacrifice the ecstatic sensory experience of his own kind. While he is no longer “high” on tomatoes, he remains “bound” to his human host, navigating the dietary quirks of Earth as a “masked man” who has traded his native highs for the forbidden flavors of a species under quarantine.
THE NAIGAJE
The "Catnip" Effect: Tomatoes
This metabolic trade-off serves as a metaphor for RD’s entire mission. To gain the human perspective and the ability to consume “poisonous” chocolate, he has had to sacrifice the ecstatic sensory experience of his own kind. While he is no longer “high” on tomatoes, he remains “bound” to his human host, navigating the dietary quirks of Earth as a “masked man” who has traded his native highs for the forbidden flavors of a species under quarantine.
Image: Healthy tomatoes at the market (Photo by Engin Akyurt via Unsplash)
Source: RD (via GT), "Put your questions here so Reptiliandude can find them!" r/reptiliandude, Reddit, (28 June 2017) https://www.reddit.com/r/reptiliandude/comments/6jvn4t/put_your_questions_here_so_reptiliandude_can_find/
Reptiliandude: I just wanted everyone to know that I would do this all over again just to be able to eat chocolate without it killing me. Of course, tomatoes no longer make me as high as they once did but you have to take the good with the bad.
ACuriousHumanBeing: Ah, so would your relatives enjoy more heirloom varities?
reptiliandude: You really have to ask this? Tomatoes are like catnip to my species.
