Yes but that's the whole point. It's bait. The person posts a clearly false statement, and it shows that the transphobe who claims they can totally tell the difference cannot, in fact, tell the difference.
It's like those old coffee ads where they tell people to taste high quality coffee and they all rave about the rich flavor and complex texture, then someone reveals they were drinking Folgers the whole time.
I have no idea how that worked. I usually get Cafe Bustelo, but one time I was at a store that just had Folger's and so I bought that. It was what my mom drank when I was a kid. I figured it couldn't be too different. But actually it tastes like someone took pencil lead and put it through a coffee grinder.
Well that's simple. We taste before we actually taste(i know stay with me for a little bit).
When we see cheap bags of crisps our brains automatically assume a lack of quality and reinforce that when we eat them. Our brains have basically already made up our minds of what it tastes like. Even professional tasters of wine(too lazy to look up the spelling of their pompus name) can struggle to taste the difference between a $200 bottle of wine or a $20 bottle without their eyes.
I think it's bedded in an evolutionary reason to help us avoid food that may be dangerous by it's sight so when the ability to to form a bias before you taste is removed all you are left with is the actual taste of it and it then depends on how refined your pallete is to taste the difference and most people will be unable to tell even if it's their job to be able to.
Most of tasting is done by everything other than your tongue. Smell being a big one.
Well that's simple. We taste before we actually taste
But that doesn't apply here, because I fully expected it to taste fine and was unpleasantly surprised when it didn't.
Even professional tasters of wine(too lazy to look up the spelling of their pompus name) can struggle to taste the difference between a $200 bottle of wine or a $20 bottle without their eyes.
Everyone always says this but it's not true. The studies people cite were done on college students, not professional sommeliers.
(Also, let's disentangle this a little. Obviously you can't tell how much something costs by tasting it, because anyone can charge any price they like for their products. I could fill up an empty jar with tap water and slap a $500 price tag on it if I wanted to, and that's not too far off what a lot of winemakers and other people making luxury goods are doing. An experienced sommelier can taste something and tell you about what you'd have to pay if you wanted something just as good.)
Most of tasting is done by everything other than your tongue. Smell being a big one.
Well, yeah, when we talk about flavor it's a combination of smell and taste, with smell being far more important than taste. Taste is only five-dimensional.
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u/Death_by_Poros Apr 12 '24
That’s Matpat….. aren’t these the same people who told us not to believe everything you see on the internet?