Thursday, 01 October 2009

S for Science S for Skew


Would you recognize the following tastes?

A sweaty granny climbing on a busy rapid transport system bus in johannesburg?

A moon dew drop sprinkled with the recently extinct Venezuelan fire fruit?

Raffa's cardboard placard from her 'lets get naked' strike tossed with the last Chinese Clinton ate?

Vermillion mixed with alpinian rocquefort cheese?

Elephantine nuisance touched with a hint of mint?

Well now is the time to find out. Tell us your most daring combinations and brave the results as two scientists explore the 10,000 taste buds inside your very own (often dirty) mouth. (Each of your taste buds contains 50-100 specialised receptor cells. Sticking out of every single one of these receptor cells is a tiny taste hair that checks out the food chemicals in your saliva. When these taste hairs are stimulated, they send nerve impulses to your brain. Each taste hair responds best to one of the five basic tastes.)

Corner and Morgan

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