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Default Blind taste test

graham wrote:
> On 2019-01-11 1:19 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Friday, January 11, 2019 at 3:00:54 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
>>> On Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 10:21:27 AM UTC-10, Thomas wrote:
>>>> Did Kerrygold butter vs Landolakes. Wife and I on mini bagles.
>>>> No diff by any taste. No name butter is 3 bucks per pound, Kerry is
>>>> ten.
>>>> I am glad to try Kerry but the affair is over.
>>>> Is there a better butter than what we see?
>>>
>>> A lot of folks have an inflated sense of the sensitivity and ability
>>> in analyzing what their eating. Why is that? I don't know. It's the
>>> same way with guitar players and audiophiles. They think they can
>>> hear the gauge of wire that their signals are traveling through their
>>> pickups or speaker cables.
>>>
>>> https://gizmodo.com/dont-buy-what-ne...ing-1678446860

>>
>> There is a good deal of variation in sensory apparatus. Some people
>> can detect quite a bit of nuance; other people cannot. Some people's
>> taste buds are extra-sensitive to certain flavors (notably cilantro);
>> others' are not.
>>
>> Anything you think you know about how something tastes is unique to you,
>> and cannot be extrapolated to anyone else.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>>

> This certainly applies to wine! I've read too many descriptions from
> pompous palates that claim to detect flavours of, say, black raspberry
> along with a veritable fruit salad of flavours.


Ha ha ha. You forgot to mention about a hundred types of leather, wood,
charcoal, etc.

It all tastes like grape wine ... some good, some bad.