At the time, I didn't realize that their onion pungency made them distasteful to animals.
Many female butterflies deposit their eggs on plants that contain poisonous compounds, which the larvae incorporate into their bodies, making them distasteful.
An assortment of turtles, such as the mud turtle and the musk turtle (Kinosternidae), have glands on the bridge of their shells that excrete a vile-smelling fluid that likely makes them distasteful to many predators.
Insect-derived myrosinase may play a role that is similar to the role it plays in plants, protecting crucifer-feeding insects against predation by making them distasteful, due to the hydrolysis of glucosinolates present in their diet [ 44].
And of course before China's opening to the outside world over the last two decades, their obvious Western influence made them politically distasteful.
A breakfast food advertiser may, for example, wish to make sure the programs do not contain elements that make breakfast distasteful.
Most people, including the majority of unionists, find the pronouncements they make distasteful and extreme.
Perhaps Mr Draghi should have instructed his colleagues to dig more deeply into MPS and look more closely at the takeover of Banca Antonveneta.Politics, poor management and lax supervision already make for a distasteful banking cocktail.
The people in charge of inventing cleanup products know that if they can just figure out a way to help make the most distasteful part of the meal even vaguely pleasurable there's a buck to be made.
