Does survival mean just staying alive??

I don't know if notion of survival is just staying alive. I am not comfortable with the idea that likes and dislikes are solely a consequence of human's effort to survive.

Perceptual paradox to learned behavior?

Please listen me out. This is what i was thinking..

Tomato Curry:

To date, i like almost all curries with tomato as their base to a medium degree and my senses develop a kind of affinity towards consuming it. Lets think of a mental experiment which would make me dislike tomato curry, given my present state of brain. I am assuming that would be a paradox to my learned status quo. Lets say, i have been presented a dish which i have never tasted before. And tomato being its main ingredient as the base curry and it also looks like that. Well, I got an OK from the visual perception of the curry and developed a prediction in my brain of its high probability to satisfy my taste buds similar to my previous experiences.

Well, upon tasting it ,say, its horrible to an unimaginable degree. Now, how would i explain this to myself.

1. Will i now conclude that ALL the dishes which have tomato curry as their base are BAD from now on?. ( this apparently is a characteristic quality of women towards entire human race. Jumping to conclusions contrary to common sense and with all the confidence on earth!!)

2. Will i attach hatred towards that particular ingredient which overwhlemed tomato base and still have my liking towards dishes with tomato curries intact in my brain?

Most likely, it would be the second explanation and if thats the case this experiment did not suceed in making me develop a dislike towards well established liking towards tomato curry.

The key question is, why did this experiment fail?.

Now lets redo the same experiment with some hypothetical constraints. Lets not change anything with my learned behavior. But instead, lets eliminate existence of all dishes with tomato curry except the one which i am going to taste. So, the initial condition of this experiment is that my brain does not have any memory traces of the existence of all the other tomato curries but somehow still have the 'learned' liking. My reaction would be same but what would be the explanation??

This time i may most likely find the first explanation and i may dislike tomato curry from now on.

Instead of eliminating the existence of tomato curry based dishes through which i established liking, lets say, they do exist but there is no way i can bring them to my dining table. The only option i have is this horrible dish. In that case, i think, helpless denial to human brain of the reality that i cannot bring the 'likable' dishes to the table. Under this circumstances, i expect the possibilty of plasticity in the learned behavior. This again is a consequence of survival but does not quite fit the evolutionary perception of survival.

Am i thinking right? Rajat