#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:

[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?

[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

[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

[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)

[dingleberry-7708]

JOHN LEE SUPERTASTER

TASTES MORE THAN WE DO

EVERYTHING HAS A FLAVOR

SOME FLAVORS ARE TOOOOOOO MUCH

[shock-centurion]

Does spice intolerance increase at night? Is that a thing?

Like I'm very weak to spice in general but there are meals that I'm like oof that's not completely comfy but it is also delicious om nom

But only when I eat them during the day

Like this uh banquet mega bowls dynamite penne and meatballs during the day is like. Yeah it's painful but it tastes good so I can push through and enjoy it right

But at night like right now

This is too much it just hurts like the pain blocks my ability to taste it

I'm over here eating the least sauced noodles only and wiping sauce off the meatballs like what is this is my brain like no it's eepy time no strong sensations

Or what

[thenikniknik]

I will drink tap water when it stops tasting like pool water. 🤢🤷‍♀️

CNN — In a trailblazing new study, researchers have discovered bottled water sold in stores can contain 10 to 100 times more bits of plastic than previously estimated — nanoparticles so infinitesimally tiny they cannot be seen under a microscope.

At 1,000th the average width of a human hair, nanoplastics are so teeny they can migrate through the tissues of the digestive tract or lungs into the bloodstream, distributing potentially harmful synthetic chemicals throughout the body and into cells, experts say.

One liter of water — the equivalent of two standard-size bottled waters — contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles from seven types of plastics, of which 90% were identified as nanoplastics and the rest were microplastics, according to the new study.

Microplastics are polymer fragments that can range from less than 0.2 inch (5 millimeters) down to 1/25,000th of an inch (1 micrometer). Anything smaller is a nanoplastic that must be measured in billionths of a meter.

“This study, I have to say, is exceedingly impressive. The body of work that they put into this was really quite profound … I would call it groundbreaking,” said Sherri “Sam” Mason, director of sustainability at Penn State Behrend in Erie, Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the study.

The new finding reinforces long-held expert advice to drink tap water from glass or stainless steel containers to reduce exposure, Mason said. That advice extends to other foods and drinks packaged in plastic as well, she added.

[delphinidin4]

Why does E6000 superglue smell like Dijon mustard?