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ELI5: Why do we like foods better in certain shapes?

Some people like spongebob shaped mac n cheese better than the regular stuff, or curly fries instead of regular fries, even though they are the same thing?
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Different shapes of food have different ratios of surface area to volume, which can affect how they're cooked or how they soak up sauces. For example, thin fries are crispier than thick fries because most of the potato in a thin fry is on the outside getting itself fried in hot oil. Thick fries keep a lot more of their total potato content on the inside, away from the oil, which keeps them softer.

Shapes of macaroni that have lots of little holes can absorb more cheese sauce than standard elbow macaroni, so you tend to get more cheese sauce per bite with them. 

So the shape of food can do a lot to affect the texture and the way it'll end up tasting.