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Originally posted by Fljotsdale:
LOL! Sounds more to me as though you KILLED your palate, Yorick!
Anyway - only time will tell if the study is correct. They aim to follow these babies for 20 years.
Um - getting stuff through the blood-stream doesn't seem ALL that likely to affect the palate - but I suppose it COULD! 
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Fjlotsdale....it's a saying. We don't taste with our palate but with our tongue remember? I was talking about the bodies receptiveness to strong and/or spicey foods. We experience food with more than just our tongues anyhow, smell affects taste, a good curry burns twice
chilli essense stings the eyes and inner nose on contact for ages - plus any mucus membrane area. A curry eaters sweat smells differently. Potatos, rice and pasta allegedly positively affect a certain "flavour", which things like beer allegedly negatively affect. The food goes right through us. (In more ways than one)
It comes back to the old "taste" being derived from association and familiarity etc, with which you disagree with regarding sight, and now it seems taste. What else Fjlotsdale? Do we all hear differently too? Is that why some of us like particular songs and others don't despite the fact that one can "persevere" with sounds and flavours and "learn" to appreciate them, thus changing their "palate" through exposure and association. It happened to me with curry/spices - a childhood of none and an incomprehension that anyone would put themself through pain while eating; to in ten years ending up eating more asian food than western (the hotter the better
) and with certain styles of music. One can conciously change their "palate" through exposure, association, familiarity and perseverance.
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I am the walrus!.... er, no hang on....
A fair dinkum laughing Hyena!
[This message has been edited by Yorick (edited 08-22-2001).]