"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Wed, 02 May 2007 20:56:26 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

those people that can see flavors and feel colors

Ah -well...

McDonald's, believe it or not, has done a lot of research in this area
and, of all things, with it's french fries. Mickey D's was the
experimenter in the 1970s that did the famous light experiment in
which a dinner was served under lighting conditions that made the food
look appealing and the diners were very satisfied with the meal. The
next day, the same meal was served under lighting that made the food
unappealing and the diners reported odd tastes and flavors that made
the food unappealing. They took that to heart and experimented with
their fries doing all kinds of neat things to them finally settling on
the current look.

The Air Force also did the famous green steak experiment in which
vegetables were brown (and perfectly edible - they were colored
differently) and the steak was green. All the Airmen involved
reported that the steak tasted like broccoli and the veggies (I forget
what they were) tasted like steak.

Brightly colored foods frequently seem to taste better than
bland-looking foods, even when the flavor compounds are identical.
Foods that somehow look off-color often seem to have off tastes.

As to feeling colors...

Red - passion, Yellow - cheerful, Blue - Peace, Gray - Gloom and Doom.

The mind is a wonderful thing. :)



So I've got a passionate truck?
Maybe that's why it always wants to tailgate those little European imports.