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I just have visions of doing this as part of our program. I can see it now:
"Hi! Welcome to Sense of Smell Day! Try some chocolate! Doesn't it smell delicious..?
Oh yuk! Guess I should have told you, it's baking chocolate! Pretty gross, huh. Ha ha, sorry!"
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Hi Alissa - I'm curious if you've tried the reverse at all, ie: Smells
good, tastes bad. I still can't resist licking spilled vanilla extract
off my fingers even though I know it tastes awful.
K
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:52:54 -0400
From: "Daniels, Alissa" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: smell bad taste good
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
available. 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
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www.BostonChildrensMuseum.org
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