Comments on: How the Tongue Tastes Carbonation https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/19/how-the-tongue-tastes-carbonat/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:43:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Comrade PhysioProf https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/19/how-the-tongue-tastes-carbonat/#comment-548657 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:43:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/19/how-the-tongue-tastes-carbonat/#comment-548657

One notion is that the capacity evolved as a way of recognizing and avoiding fermenting foods[.]

Avoiding!?!?!? Is this some kind of fucking joke????

]]> By: Uncle Glenny https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/19/how-the-tongue-tastes-carbonat/#comment-548656 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:55:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/19/how-the-tongue-tastes-carbonat/#comment-548656 And here I am sipping 50/50 cider/seltzer.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/19/how-the-tongue-tastes-carbonat/#comment-548655 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:48:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/19/how-the-tongue-tastes-carbonat/#comment-548655 Hmmmm… makes me want to put some blumenkohl in sauerstoff.

]]> By: llewelly https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/19/how-the-tongue-tastes-carbonat/#comment-548654 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:48:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/19/how-the-tongue-tastes-carbonat/#comment-548654 The opening was so nice, I had to read it twice …

]]> By: chezjake https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/19/how-the-tongue-tastes-carbonat/#comment-548653 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:40:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/19/how-the-tongue-tastes-carbonat/#comment-548653 It’s all well and good that they’ve finally pinpointed this, but it’s not exactly rocket science to deduce that sour taste buds are involved in tasting carbon dioxide. After all, everything that we taste as sour is because it has an acid component, and carbonating water produces carbonic acid. The etymology of “sour” is from the German word “sauer,” which means “acid.”

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