"The fatty acid part of taste is very unpleasant,'' said study author Richard Mattes, a Purdue nutrition science professor. "I haven't met anybody who likes it alone. You usually get a gag reflex.''
Stinky cheese has high levels of the fat taste, and so does food that goes rancid, Mattes said. Yet we like it because it mixes well and brings out the best of other flavors, just like the bitter in coffee or chocolate, he said.
Call me old-fashioned, but sometimes I wish that when the person being quoted is not well-spoken the reporter would clean up the quote a little. As in "I haven't met anybody who likes it alone. It usually makes people gag.''
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Call me old-fashioned, but sometimes I wish that when the person being quoted is not well-spoken the reporter would clean up the quote a little. As in "I haven't met anybody who likes it alone. It usually makes people gag.''