umami, you taste like sushi
Fast Food Nation II by Eric Schlosser:
SCIENTISTS now believe that human beings acquired the sense of taste as a way to avoid being poisoned. Edible plants generally taste sweet, harmful ones bitter. The taste buds on our tongues can detect the presence of half a dozen or so basic tastes, including sweet, sour, bitter, salty, astringent, and umami, a taste discovered by Japanese researchers -- a rich and full sense of deliciousness triggered by amino acids in foods such as meat, shellfish, mushrooms, potatoes, and seaweed.
you mean there's a term for that tingly-guilty-dirty sex feeling I get after a meat-binge at Seabra's all you can eat grilled safari buffet??? who knew!
apparently the Japanese did.
SCIENTISTS now believe that human beings acquired the sense of taste as a way to avoid being poisoned. Edible plants generally taste sweet, harmful ones bitter. The taste buds on our tongues can detect the presence of half a dozen or so basic tastes, including sweet, sour, bitter, salty, astringent, and umami, a taste discovered by Japanese researchers -- a rich and full sense of deliciousness triggered by amino acids in foods such as meat, shellfish, mushrooms, potatoes, and seaweed.
you mean there's a term for that tingly-guilty-dirty sex feeling I get after a meat-binge at Seabra's all you can eat grilled safari buffet??? who knew!
apparently the Japanese did.
