there was a hilarious discussion about alcoholic drinks once we discovered that some people get a strong bitter taste from ethanol while most can’t taste it at all; it’s so easy to assume that the people who say it’s disgusting are just immature lightweight killjoys and the people who say it’s great just love getting drunk and don’t mind drinking disgusting things to do it.
yep this was a big revalation to me since i find it bitter. I think i also have the tannin thing which is why unsweetened coffee/ tea tastes horrible to me but people who say they like it AREN’T actually lying to seem tough after all.
Wait a minute, does “can’t taste it at all” mean that most people can’t taste the difference between alcoholic drinks and non-alcoholic drinks?
apparently they get the burning sensation in the throat if theres enough alcohol but not the actuak taste.
??? I figured it might be an autistic thing to be sensitive to the taste, the same way certain sounds or textures are intolerable for me, but they really can’t taste it at all?
it’s a genetic thing apparently. And that’s what i’m told, but i still find it hard to believe lol. (and apparently it’s us people who can taste it that are the odd ones out).
Not true, afaict? everyone thinks ethanol is bitter though some people also think it’s sweet https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/10940547/
I manage to *both* think that alcohol has a strong flavour *and* not be able to reliably tell if a drink is alcoholic.
Like this incident:
Me: *takes a bit of the fruit punch bowl, drinks*
Sensory processors: This tastes stabby. Like our mouth’s getting poked with needles.
Me: What kind of stabby? Sour? Bitter? Carbonated? Alcoholic?
Sensory processors: I don’t know! Stabby!
(I doubt it was actually alcoholic, but only because I don’t think the culinary school would have served alcoholic punch without a warning sign.)
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*Sometimes* I can distinguish between those four things, but sometimes they all just blur together into a generic “stabby”. I’m not really sure what determines whether this happens. Contextual clues might be involved: a fruit punch could easily be any or all of them except *maybe* bitter.
(And since everyone else in this thread is treating alcoholic-taste as a form of bitter, maybe that one’s *entirely* context, I don’t know.)
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