Sat down

and started drinking tea. Stopped and thought "This tastes like the way foreign fireworks before you burn them."
I'm tasting a smell in my tea. While I understand how that's possible I can't help find it odd.

I find myself doing it constantly.
I can't explain it, honestly. But I do know exactly what you mean.

C0FFINCASE wrote:

and started drinking tea. Stopped and thought "This tastes like the way foreign fireworks before you burn them."
I'm tasting a smell in my tea. While I understand how that's possible I can't help find it odd.

If its a strong enough smell, you can taste it.

Souleater wrote:

If its a strong enough smell, you can taste it.

I think it might be because your taste buds are just in front of, and sometimes below, your nasal cavities in the back of your tongue. So even though we don't know it, any sort of scent or fume we breathe we get a mouth full of.
And having that rest on our tastebuds when it gets in our mouth lets us taste it.



holy shit, somebody call Nicholas Cage. I'm onto something.

Raivu wrote:

I think it might be because your taste buds are just in front of, and sometimes below, your nasal cavities in the back of your tongue. So even though we don't know it, any sort of scent or fume we breathe we get a mouth full of.
And having that rest on our tastebuds when it gets in our mouth lets us taste it.



holy shit, somebody call Nicholas Cage. I'm onto something.

Well thats generally what I mean.

Souleater wrote:

Well thats generally what I mean.

throw me a bone, I'm having a moment.

Smell makes up like 80%-90% of taste so I know thats how it would work but I'm more confused about why my tea taste like fireworks.

Raivu wrote:

throw me a bone, I'm having a moment.

I'll throw you a bone and by bone I mean my penis.