The Glorious GitSlayer wrote:
yossarian wrote:
I do prefer tea, but coffee is harder to ***** up so I order it instead of tea. I'm curious if those who take it black actually have bitter taste receptors. See, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster.
I like my coffee bitter
like my women. Aside for the caffine, that is the reason you drink coffee, right?
Sometimes I enjoy black coffee, more often I add stuff, but I don't have the bitter taste receptor, e.g. what I taste as bitter isn't nearly as bitter as others.
Thus I'm curious - of the people who know whether they have the bitter taste receptor or not - who enjoys black coffee.
Now you're going to tell me I'm the only one who knows. Doh. Oh, and yes, of course, we still taste bitter. Through other receptors, just not the dominant channel.
By the way, I think the phrase supertaster is totally stupid. The profound difference is in bitter taste receptors and as far as I know this is the only area where there are common differences in humans (e.g. about half one way, half the other) with experimentally verified extreme differences in response to taste.
More then you ever wanted to know.
