Message 25842 of 39188 in General Discussion

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> 
> The answer might be simple. All the tasting notes, fruity, oak, etc. 
> is what we like. We like to be able to taste the certain aspects of 
> the rum. This answer sounds to easy to me. 
> 
> Now I like to hypothise that this is not true and that it is 
> something we've learned from our environment. We believe that we like 
> the certain rum flavours. We are thought to like the flavours. We are 
> thought to like singles above blends.
> I think that in reality people like something else. Something we 
> aren't conscious about.


I've had an ongoing argument similar i nessence to this with my wife. I argue 
that people's taste buds are totally different. Both in make up of ratio to 
salt:bitter:sweet:sour and how these particular flavors are actually 
perceived. (She thinks that I am an ass, but that is neither here nor there.) 
And just because we have the same words for these flavors does mean that they 
are exactly the same for everyone. It is custom, when we both taste something 
that is "sour" we both refer to it as "sour". This is completely unrelated to 
what it is that our minds recieve and process via this info from our taste 
buds.

This is why people have different palates. Sure, you can train your palate, 
but two people donot pick up the same flavors. This is why I like certain 
things that others do not care for, and why I just don't get howanyone would 
like these things. 

Take for instance coffee. Everyone drinks it different, and it tastes right to 
them. I think that my wife puts way too much coffemate (pseudocreamer) in 
hers, and she doesn't like it strong enough. Now this may be a function of 
conditioning. But as a counter to that I fell the same wayabout the way my 
parents drink coffe, which is where I first became conditioned to what coffe 
"should" taste like. 

But maybe it is something more innate, maybe my wife and I just taste the 
coffee and the cream differently. Maybe what is good to her just is repugnant 
to me, regardless of conditioning. Much like colr blindness, maybepeople have 
certain taste blindnesses as well.

The coffee example is easily applied to cocktails in the case of sweet, sour, 
etc. I, similar to Bippo, enjoy a good LIIT on occasion, but like Nidal, much 
prefer a Cuba Libre. But I also prefer a white fish, but sometimes I just feel 
like salmon.