[This is the second installment of my DUAN series referencing the 5 senses. Maybe it’s the third, I forget. I’ve gotta start writing these things down somewhere.]
According to the book “Taste and Smell: An Update” by Thomas Hummel, the seven most common flavors in food that are directly detected by the tongue are: sweet, bitter, sour, salty, meaty (umami), cool, and hot. But the tongue is not the only game in town when it comes to taste. Apparently, according to Hummel, the nose also plays a significant role in determining flavors, and the sensors in the nose can detect thousands of distinct “flavors”. And words…oh words…we use so many different words to describe tastes. Acidic, acrid, astringent, biting, bitter, briny, and on and on through savory and tart. Not to mention the panoply of words associated with mouth feel. Just the words “mouth feel” conjure up a universe of sensation.
Anyway, tonight’s theme is songs associated with flavors. Good luck. This DUAN counts toward 20% of your final grade, which you would know if you’d read the syllabus.
Bittersweet is pretty good…
but Dr Ring Ding is Sweet Like Candy!
(Please let this have nothing to do with an inappropriate intergenerational relationship…)
Have you seen this movie lately? Like “Willy Wonka,” I assume the drugs that were passed around must have been phenomenal.
Such an underrated album!
I HAD THE 8-TRACK (the original album, not this compilation).
Sweet
Toots and the Maytals – Sweet and Dandy
and sour
Bleached – Sour Candy
Nice call with the Dinah Washington. This is Aretha’s cover from her tribute album:
Freddie King – Sugar Sweet
wow…thats one of my favouritest songs…..and i never even thought of it
well played!
I really like this song too and every time I’ve ever heard it I thought it was a remake of something from the late 60s. Is it?
dunno if it was from the late 60s…but it was by a pretty big band
they only recently gave the verve the rights to the song too…the stones made bank of that one….the verve not so much
THAT’S where I must have heard it from.
Modey Lemon – Seasons of Sweets
i just want some pub grub
You will enjoy tomorrow’s FYCE.
Cross-feature Deadsplinter promotion. I like it.
i eagerly await it 😀
Doctor Teeth — Cheesecake
Damn Red Sox.
Now Old Billie Idol
Unami?
The songs that immediately sprung to mind;