taste
November 12, 2011It was just silence as we took a break in between work. We had so much work leading up to FV’s 1st birthday party, but we needed a breather and a stretch.
Nani was sipping a drink from a glass, Dean just staring at the wall all tired, and I was…well I was playing with my tongue because I was pretty sure there was some chilli stuck in my mouth.
Then the randomest thought came to my head.
“Guys….”
“Yeah?”
“You know the science thingy that tell us that our certain parts of our tongue tastes only certain tastes?”
Nani ignored me, but Dean had more love for me.
“….Uh-huh…”
“I think it’s all a scam.”
“Why?”
“Cos whenever I taste food, my whole tongue tastes it. Sweet or salty, the whole thing feels it. I don’t believe the taste sections even exist.”
“But it’s science.”
“Yeah, that’s what they tell you! You’d believe anything…”
Dean kept quiet and continued staring at the wall.
After a few seconds of silence, Dean played with his tongue and looked at me.
“Ok let’s try!” He suddenly got energized. “Grab some salt and sugar.”
Guess what we did for the next few minutes…
That’s right, we put science to test.
And we’re both still confused if the front part of our tongue tasted the salt or not. But we realised we totally wasted 5 minutes of our lives.
You try!!
You know, if you’ve got nothing better to do with your time.
Haha.
Hi Pd! this fact has actually been proven wrong by scientist. Guess what we learn in school is not always the truth isn’t?
But kuddos on the experiment =)
never thought of going against science. seems like it’s not necessarily be all right afterall.
alaa..penat studi science.suddenly proven wrong plak
yeah true la….i had chili potong with be hun yesterday for dinner. and the front part tip of my tounge was the one burning from the spiciness….thats odd. scientists makes up something and makes us believe. i mean who war ewe to prove them wrong when the pull out their pen and paper and scribble all sort of formula that makes us pening.
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We have about 10,000 taste buds and new ones grow every five days (got it off QI lol)
http://youtu.be/0N9bOoWxka8 minute 10:00
yep pd!agree with takehiko.this theory has been proven wrong by the scientists a couple of years back!
i did some experiment too at home right after i came back from school and apparently that was my first day of learning about it at school.but in the end i felt even more confused lol and i decided to just took in what science said because well it’s ‘science’ 😀
Common Misconceptions
Just a little trivia.
hahahahahahah! even when u’r at ur busiest time, u still are funny!! hahahahahahahaha! But in the character, why dean had to stare the wall when he’s tired?? hahhahahaha it’s funny! and you with your chilli stucked at ur teeth?? hahahahahahahah!
its more sensitive in those areas of your tongue thats all, not that you can’t taste sweet on the salty part of your tongue 😉
I tried that out ages ago LOL :p
Easiest to test with sugar
we asked our high school teacher this last time.her answer was its because the tongue is full of saliva all around.so ‘tastes’ spread all around also ;P
http://www.cracked.com/article_19296_6-lies-about-human-body-you-learned-in-kindergarten.html
Have a gander, your curiosity will be satisfied. And a word of warning, cracked.com is highly addictive so don’t start clicking on those links if you have a mountain of work to get through. Horrific time-waster. By the by, your man’s brother is getting married to my cousin soon. Tiny world.
you guys are so cute!!
Yup. Those early comment leavers are right. It’s been disproved. Haha.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions#Senses
Read the whole list if you have the time. It’s insanely informative/interesting