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Ask Adam: Why do we like extremely hot/cold food? Real vanilla vs imitation vanilla? What's up with your accent? (E20)

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Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Cold

The phrase some like it hot has been a cultural trope in english ever since, used as the title for movies and other songs. I will say i expected to find much more scientific literature on this topic than i did when i went looking for you, samuel. They literally just warmed and cooled the tip of people's tongues and found that warming stimulates a sweet taste, while cooling stimulates sour or salty tastes. So maybe it's not that cold allows us to taste the sa in the lunch meat, but rather, we are simply tasting the cold itself as saltiness,. Theanoids are group of 19 antarctic species and sub antarctic fish species.

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