[Zoot]

Random question that i've been wondering for a while:
Do you think we all get the same tastes from food?
Let me explain...

Everyone likes and dislikes different foods. Is there a reason to this? Now If I was to eat peanut butter, which I like, would I be getting the exact same taste sensation that someone who doesn't like it? Would the same signals be sent to the brain? When people are colour blind they see things differently to other people, could there be something similar when it comes to taste sense's?

Also, Is it possible to train your taste buds? If i was to taste soup for instance, could Gordon Ramsey taste the same soup and taste more 'detail' than me?

I know they say certain lifestyle things can kill your taste buds 'Like smoking etc', but does it make that much difference?

Am I making any sense what so ever?

[Yudster]

You're bored, aren't you Florence?

[Zoot]

I'm not Florence today I'm afraid. Back at work. I am bored though...

[DevilsDuck]

love you zoot

I have often though the same thing with how we see colours

because I see blue for example and no its blue because i have always been told...its blue

but what if someone else sees blue the same as I see red but they think its blue because they have always been told....its blue

[Zoot]

love you zoot

I have often though the same thing with how we see colours

because I see blue for example and no its blue because i have always been told...its blue

but what if someone else sees blue the same as I see red but they think its blue because they have always been told....its blue

Yea, I've thought that too. We have no guarantee the colour I regard as 'Blue' is the same as the colour you regard as 'Blue'

[DevilsDuck]

love you zoot

I have often though the same thing with how we see colours

because I see blue for example and no its blue because I have always been told...its blue

but what if someone else sees blue the same as I see red but they think its blue because they have always been told....its blue

Yea, I've thought that too. We have no guarantee the colour I regard as 'Blue' is the same as the colour you regard as 'Blue'

Exactly

Also appologies for the the "no" that should have been "know"

[S4B]

Zooty you need to read some Jean Paul Sartre!

[Zoot]

Zooty you need to read some Jean Paul Sartre!

Hmm dunno, i didn't like him on Eurotrash and his perfume makes me gag...

[S4B]

hmm if you say so!



*not amused*

[Zoot]

*not amused*

Ha, Is it 'off with my head' now Queen SforB?

[S4B]

Yep! absolutely!

[Vivienne]

I like this topic. No, I don't think we would all get the same tastes from food. Just as we all have different aural and visual ability, it kind of makes sense that we will all taste things in a unique manner. I hate beetroot. Why do people like beetroot. It's ugly to look at, and tastes even worse.

[S4B]

Beetroot is a glorious colour, it tastes delicious - when not pickled - and is VERY good for you! How can anyone not like it?!

[MK Chris]

I don't like beetroot. I'm not sure my opinion as a connoisseur counts all that much though.

[Sunny So Cal]

Beetroot is a glorious colour, it tastes delicious - when not pickled - and is VERY good for you! How can anyone not like it?!

I agree. The only downside is how badly it stains clothing, cutting boards, etc.

[SpaceBoy]

Taste is a fantastic thing but depending on a few factors such as oral temperature, hormonal influences and the foods astringencys can have a dramatic difference in how we taste the same type of food but at different times.

e.g. if you eat cold Heinz baked beans from a can they taste different to that of Heinz baked beans which have been heated. Try it for yourself.

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[foot-loose]

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That will only make sense till Console edits the above posts. Then it is I who shall be the tit.

[Sunny So Cal]

Which is why I didn't comment on it and instead PM'd the issue to Console. Tit

[foot-loose]

You PM'd it to him? Why do you care that much?

Tit.

[Sunny So Cal]

For the same reason you took the time to type>>

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Titty boy!

[Bruvva]

I often wonder the same thing about colour and, being colour blind, I know I see things differently. What people tell me is green looks brown, purple is blue and certain shades of green look grey. At primary school, I got told off all the time for colouring things in incorrectly.

[MK Chris]

I know things taste differently to me depending on whether or not I've just chucked up if that helps?

[Console]

Personal and relative perception and experience has always fascinated me. Even though our sensory organs are all pretty much the same, there will be small differences that would mean a different input from them for different people. Saying that, though, even if the inputs were identical we probably wouldn't experience it the same way - our brains would filter it differently, focus on different elements, incorporate different elements of our current metal-feedback loop into what we're sensing. For taste, it's not just whether our taste-buds actually 'taste' the food differently, it's also how our brain responds to that taste. Take 'acquired tastes' - it isn't the taste-buds themselves that change, it's way the brain interprets the taste that changes. How one responds to a 'taste' can also change depending on mood, time-of-day, hunger level and numerous other influences - it'd be hard enough figuring out if a single person ever tasted the same food the same way twice, let alone if two people tasted it the same way.

The other senses are just as variable, people have different levels of visual acuity, we know this - it's why some people wear glasses/contact lenses. So immediately, they're seeing the world differently to other people. The tuned frequencies and lengths of the rods and cones in peoples eyes, as well as the number of them, are also differentiating factors in peoples sight. Hearing will similarly be different for every person, the size of the ears, the thickness of the eardrum, the length of the little bones, etc.

[S4B]

Console, is there anything you don't know about? Or are you very good at blagging?

[Console]

I read up about things that interest me and humans senses and perception has always intrigued me, so I learnt about it.