The Kids
1. From my six-year old son: "How come we can't taste our own taste buds?" I don't know, although I think it would be annoying if we could.
2. My four-year old daughter hates chocolate. How much? This much: The other day, we were eating sour gummies – VERY sour. The kind that make you wince for several seconds. We gave one to our daughter. She took one lick, and as expected, she screwed up her face at the taste. Then she solemnly asked, "Does this have chocolate inside it?" On being assured that it didn’t, she kept eating and wincing.
2. My four-year old daughter hates chocolate. How much? This much: The other day, we were eating sour gummies – VERY sour. The kind that make you wince for several seconds. We gave one to our daughter. She took one lick, and as expected, she screwed up her face at the taste. Then she solemnly asked, "Does this have chocolate inside it?" On being assured that it didn’t, she kept eating and wincing.
posted by Stuart Buck at
12:08 PM
3 Comments:
I would say that for number 1, you may be subject to taste fatigue, where an omnipresent stimulation becomes background noise. Like how people can live around waste treatment plants; though only after a while I presume.
""How come we can't taste our own taste buds?" I don't know, although I think it would be annoying if we could."
Maybe we CAN taste our tastebuds but since we taste them all the time the taste never stands out for us to notice.
I think Aristotle says something in De Anima that is to the point, doesn't he?
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