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Alissa,
I don't know the answer to your deep and probing question but I do know
someone that might. Her name is Marcie Pelchat at the Monell Chemical
Senses Center in Philadelphia. She has a great collection of odd foods
including reindeer blood pancake mix from Lapland. She also uses Nutella to
define delicious. A definition I can definitely get behind.
Here is a link to her web page at Monell.
http://www.monell.org/Faculty/pelchat.htm
Good Luck,
Mike
PS Marcie is super nice, bubbly and extremely helpful.
On 3/12/08 10:52 AM, "Daniels, Alissa" <[log in to unmask]>
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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
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> 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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