#supertaste

[copperbadge]

Do you have thoughts on all-dressed chips?

I can't think if I've ever had all-dressed, I don't think I have. I'm familiar with them conceptually but they're not found in the US very often. I've definitely seen them like, available on store shelves once in a while (I think Lays sometimes does them seasonally) but I've generally assumed they'd suffer from Everything Bagel Syndrome.

I don't know how normal people encounter the everything bagel, or even just the Everything Bagel seasoning that for example Trader Joe's sells. Given the general enthusiasm for it, I suppose it's pretty popular, but I've never seen the point. Everything bagels just taste like onions to me -- onion is of course one of the toppings but it's so dominant that it's basically "crunchy texture from the sesame/poppy plus overwhelming onion". I don't know if it's that most people aren't aware that 90% of what they're tasting is onion, or if I'm over-tasting the onion because I'm a supertaster and that's a particular sensitivity of mine.

Onion's a nice flavor, I don't dislike it and I see why people go nuts for Everything if they don't realize it's onion. But whenever I encounter all-dressed or everything flavors, I just think, well, if I want that I'll just get onion flavor and skip the mess. It's only just occurring to me that I actually don't know if all-dressed would be the same. I'll have to keep an eye peeled and try them out.

Unless all-dressed also includes jalapeno flavor. Fuck that shit. :D

[cant-get-enough-btr-forever]

I made Big Time Funko Pops!

I used Funko Pop's site for the bases, but it doesn't exactly offer a myriad of accessories. So, have some poorly drawn tattoos/earrings/costumes/etc. from yours truly.

I pulled some additional PNG goodies from the Web. The "I ❤ Kendall" sign is not mine; credit goes to this person.

The Boys:

Gustavo and Kelly:

Katie and Mama Knight (Katie is holding money, BTW):

The Girls:

The Supertastic Super Six™:

Bonus Funko Pops:

[3liza]

This might be a bit weird of me to send to you but idc, it's a topic that is fascinating me today and you're someone who has thoughts on lots of other things that are fascinating to me!

Anyway, do you know anything about super recognizers? Basically the opposite of face blindness. I have it, and for a while I just thought everyone around me must be super unobservant but apparently it's actually kind of freakish of me that I can remember the eye color of practically everyone I've ever seen in my life lol

idk what exactly I'm asking of you, I'm mostly just curious if face blindness/the opposite of that is anything you've thought about much before! I sometimes wonder if it's linked to autism but from what I've seen so far it doesn't seem to be??

i havent heard about this until you mentioned it but it fits into the larger pattern of humans having varying intensities of function in their perceptual systems. psychosis spectrum dysfunction and paranoia is theorized to be a sort of hyperactivity in the pattern-recognition part of the brain, where you can't STOP seeing coincidences, patterns, and similarities, which then leads to paranoia about people sending you 'messages' which then leads to surveillance paranoia. it's happened to me and it's very weird

i experience something like youre describing and it's one reason i have the typical autistic gaze-avoidance: faces are too much information and it's like looking into the sun. i dont have the study on hand but if i remember correctly i read a brain imaging study of autistic vs. allistic people who were shown faces, and the autistic subjects displayed much more brain activity in regions related to processing information than the allistics, and were perceivably expending much more energy and stress in the perception. this would account for the autistic symptom of apparent "face blindness" being so common in people who otherwise cannot be beaten by any average challenger in a game of Guess Who, who have pattern recognition skills so powerful they can explain at length the difference between various diesel locomotives no one else can tell apart (or whatevr): its because looking at a human face is physically painful, so the autistic toddler learns not to do it as they develop mature eyesight, and then years of not looking at faces start to take their toll as their social skills lag behind because if you arent looking at a face you cannot perceive someone's expression, nor can you learn to imitate it!

early autism therapy SHOULD be working on desensitizing (without force) young children to these perceptual stress tests so they can tolerate the noxious stimulus. i have found that Adderall in particular helps me a LOT with this. i wish someone had explained to me what i just wrote in the above paragraph when i was about 4, because explaining the reasons why i will benefit from doing something unpleasant (like looking at a human face) is the only way to start to overcome the pathological demand avoidance that goes along with most autistic diagnoses: we get so fucking traumatized from being told or forced to do things against our will that it becomes a major dysfunction.

as ive gotten older a lot of my questions about why everyone seemed to behave differently than i do were answered by the observation that the majority of people are simply not noticing things. they are perceiving the world with far less detail than i am unless they choose (and/or are trained) to bring certain details into focus. those are skills that can be taught, i absolutely do not believe in innate talents or abilities, you can teach almost anyone to do almost anything, mastery is a matter of motivation, not god-given talent. but the majority of people are not noticing eye color, skin texture, and are bad even at accurately perceiving color, size and shape. they can look at a face without getting an electric shock. they dont receive a full body shot of adrenaline when a familiar voice actor shows up in a cartoon. they dont consciously hear the cat meowing three blocks away. their attention can be drawn to these things, if someone else points them out, but their subjective experience seems not to be, usually anyway, a series of clamoring and dazzling sensate intrusions which are impossible to ignore or not consider carefully. it seems safe to assume that most of the time, most allistic people only experience this state of consciousness while on drugs or otherwise in an altered mental state. when i started experiencing various drugs finally, i was able to see how similar these experiences were to normal or regular/recurrent daily sober experiences for me. while stone sober, i can get stuck in a bathroom because im looking at the tile pattern in exactly the same way someone on mushrooms will.

i think also it's important to emphasize to ourselves and to children that the human social group benefits from having someone with these abilities around. this is why the genotypes for autism are so common, and why they survive, and why we have archaeological and anthropological evidence of human settlements absolutely always having a minority of Weird Guys around who just know things but usually arent too interested in living in town with everyone else.

so super recognizers fit into the pattern of hyperlexia, hypercalculia, supertasters etc that are very commonly represented in autism. i guess i have a weird form of this where my recognition abilities will ping so hard on people that look SIMILAR that it ends up making me worse at recognizing people sometimes because i cant stop seeing their similarities.

[stagefoot]

At today’s meet-and-greet there was a container with strawberries and pineapple

And I love strawberries and I HATE pineapple (even more than I love strawberries) so I was like

[xcziel]

picky eater/supertaster update:

so far the Sneaky Peas system has been a success. best practice is 6-8 frozen peas washed down between every few bites of minute rice with campbell's golden mushroom soup straight out of the can (delicious to me for nostalgia reasons)

now if only i could figure some convenient way of rendering broccoli or like spinach into frozen easy-to-swallow form ...

[dragonraptyr]

Regarding Force Sensitivity and the recent discussions about Sabine: y'all, what if it's like the difference between being a Supertaster, and taking the time to develop your palate?

[performing-personhood]

Be me.

Find a flavor of bagels at the grocery store and get very excited, Hawaiian Bagels. Well I love a Kings Hawaiian brand roll so a bagel would probably be amazing, even if its a cheapo Kroger brand approximation.

Buy bagels. Happy Skipping Leo dot Gif.

Slather 5 in wads of cream cheese and runny fried eggs, and consume happily. All that lovely mouth-coating fat hides an ugly truth. I am blissfully ignorant.

Bagel 6 breaks the mold and gets a thin layer peanut butter.

Finish up my bagel. Scroll reddit for a while until I notice a funny flavor lingering in my mouth. A chemically, plasticky, flat flavor - like the sourness that remains after finishing a breathmint, but not quite as sharp and funky. A flavor like sucralose. A hunch takes shape.

A giant red flag labeled SHRINKFLATION waves in my brain.

Skeptical Fry dot Gif

Dig the bag back out of my Bag O Bags™️, read deep into the ingredients

Ingredient 22 of 30: sucralose

Cool, now I'm annoyed and frustrated and its 100% not my fault that I didn't think to check if there was a zero calorie sweetener in these regular-ass full-everything 260-calorie bagels. (Actually 260cal is a little low, which should have been a giveaway but I don't track calories so, again, I don't think to read calorie content labels.) My mouth tastes like plastic even though I am still drinking coffee and I have to go get READ THE INGREDIENT LABELS ON EVERYTHING BEFORE YOU BUY IT tattooed across the back of my hands because I can't ever remember to check for ingredients that should not fucking be in the food I'm carefully selecting to avoid those ingredients.

WHY DO YOU HAVE TO RUIN EVERYTHING, DIET CULTURE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, WHY.

[calamitys-child]

OK pray FUCK I get an actual sleep tonight I'm so tired tn and legit afraid insomnia will Still get me. Please brain it's bedtime I need it

[scienceisfood]

I lost my sense of smell/flavor

[theonlybezo]

I don't know the prevalence of supertasting in the autistic community, but I am both autistic and a supertaster and one of the ways I exist is to measure and categorize everything so, without ado of any kind, here are my tolerance levels for various tastes.

Feel free to add your own, regardless of your autistic or supertaster status.

Sweet: 7/10 (there is such a thing as too sweet but it'll take a lot to push me away)

Salty: 8/10 (I crave that mineral and even when I can feel it burning my lips, there are very few things that could be considered too salty for me)

Sour: 2/10 (I do not enjoy anything more sour than tomato ketchup)

Bitter: 1/10 (Bitterness absolutely ruins food for me. I cannot drink coffee or eat many vegetables because of this)

Spicy: 3/10 (I like a bit of tingle but anything that attacks the tongue or remains in the mouth for more than a few seconds is bad)

Earthy: 1/10 (This is probably a subcategory of bitter but anything like mushrooms is right out)

Fermented: 0/10 (included in this category is alcohol, kombucha, and any cheese in which mold is a feature. Anything that tastes of rot is not something I wish to experience)

[fruitgoat]

Probably won't be post much for at least a week. I've got a couple members of the Chicago based Family visiting and that means everyone else is visiting too. But I just need to rant for a minute about the obliviousness that is My Mom. I just had to explain to her Yet Again, that although my brother and niece do not stay kosher, they are still Jewish and that perhaps pork for Friday Dinner would not be appropriate.

[copperbadge]

Bought a couple bags of lay’s dill pickle flavored potato chips because Walmart was selling them for 2 bucks per and was the only flavor they’d ship to me. Thought of you when I was eating them. Spoiler alert: they do not, in fact, taste like dill pickles. More like less salty and less sour salt and vinegar chips.

I often do actually like dill pickle chips for precisely that reason -- I really like salt and vinegar chips but because of the supertaster thing they're often too intensely flavored for me.

Like, I have to eat Doritos weird so that the extra seasoning doesn't get on my lips and then burn my tongue when I lick it off. It's the dumbest fucking genetic quirk I have, I swear. I'd take an uptick in the ADHD if I could get rid of the damn supertasting.

Anyway usually dill pickle flavored chips don't have that weird rancid butter flavor that actual pickles have for me, and they're mellower than salt and vinegar chips, so I tend to enjoy them. But lately I've been making my own dill pickle cashews with Trader Joe's pickle seasoning, and those are perfect, so I am mostly content. :D

[the-unseelie-court-official]

That wonderful home cooking! #vintage #cottagecore #supertaster #aesthetic #momcore

[xcziel]

Hey saw your tags about anemia and still being anemic after taking supplements. And you may have tried this, but I got this tip from another tumblr user so I'm passing it on. Have you tried Iron Bisglyconate supplements? It's a different form of iron than typical supplements or RX supplements and it's much better on your stomach and more easily absorbed. And in my experience it worked when normal Ferrous Sulfate didn't.

I consulted my doctor and she went off and told me the correct dosage for me when I was severely anemic was 100mg/day but normally I take about 50mg now.

Just worth trying. For the record they don't know the cause of my anemia either but my mom has had the same problem her entire life. They just don't like when I tell them it has to be genetic.

I haven't tried bisglycinate - i've now got some tabs open for reasearch, thank you!

my Dr put me on 28mg heme polypeptide + polysaccharide iron complex every other day, which does seem to help a bit but not get me out of the zone?

after the one session of iron infusion last november, we seem to be just watching the hemoglobin go slowly back down. he seems to feel like if it gets too low again then the answer is just another infusion and has stopped really looking at causes/other options

i'm a bad case i guess because i'm also taking omeprazole and that inhibits absorption.

my new idea recently was to try a methylfolate supplement, even though my folate numbers are good, in case it was a lack of the right kind of folate that was inhibiting iron uptake (i don't get a lot of plant-derived vitamins) but it was *really* affecting my mood for the worse, so i had to stop. next appointment is soon, so we'll see in the bloodwork if it had any affect.

i'll ask him if trying another form of iron supplement might be worth looking at - maybe in addition?, because he didn't really offer a choice - just said "take this, it's easier on your stomach" (probably because the metformin is rough enough on my digestion)

[charmstrangebeauty]

Context: https://www.healthday.com/health-news/pulmonology/5-25-are-lemons-super-bitter-to-you-you-might-have-lower-covid-risk-2653071406.html

[afniel]

Yellow, yellow, different yellow. The ultraviolet component of neon colors doesn't reproduce well because it's a color that you can sorta-kinda perceive, but unless the screen it's on is capable of emitting that frequency (it probably isn't) or, if it's physical reproducing, they actually used pigment that reflects UV properly, it's not gonna look right.

Digitally neon yellow usually comes across as super bright, super saturated yellow-green. The ultraviolet tips the yellow further from the red end of the spectrum and just a bit into green, since what you're seeing is a combination of light that's yellow + a shade beyond purple that itself looks a little greenish if you can see it at all (rather like magenta, neon colors technically aren't 'real' since they're only produced by multiple wavelengths at once hitting your retina and there is no 'pure' frequency that will make, for example, being yellow). It's just that display and color space standards don't include colors that we mostly don't perceive.

green, green, yellow. on god. this isn't a clickbait "obvious answer" poll i am sincerely losing my mind people have been making fun of me for a year at this point. please. im gonna move to antarctica