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Hey all. 

Here's an earth-shatteringly not-of-great-importance but still interesting question:

We were planning out some activities for our Sense of Smell Day next month, and one of my coworkers suggested we have durian fruit avaiable. I'm not familiar with it, but apparently it smells awful (like pig s**t, according to one well known description) but it tastes great. It got me wondering about other foods like that (some cheeses come to mind).

If smell contributes something like 75% of the flavor experience when you eat something, how can something that smells so awful still manage to be tasty? Thoughts?


bringing you the Big Questions, as always,
AD
aka SLOB (the Smell Lady of Boston--thanks, Jonah!)
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Alissa Daniels, Science Program Manager
Boston Children's Museum
617-426-6500 x342
www.BostonChildrensMuseum.org
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."   --Isaac Asimov 
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