<RJ> wrote:
> COUNTRY TIME Lemonade Mix.
>
> When it first came out in the 70's,
> it tasted so real, it blew away the competition.
>
> Now, it tastes like Lemon Kool Ade.
> ( and thats not saying much )

Thirty five years ago your ability to taste was at least 1000% better
than it is today... generally the ability to taste sour is the first to
go, then salt, then sweet, then bitter... which is why as people age
they begin to use more and more salt and sugar, to also overwhelm their
ability to better perceive bitterness. Many elderly stop eating
because everything tastes bitter and at the same time their ability to
smell diminishes greatly. Whenever you see middle aged folks in the
media as professional food, wine, and coffee tasters it's 100% BS, it's
a biological impossiblity for folks over thirty to percieve the minute
nuances of taste and smell... anyone over 40 buying $50 bottles of wine
is a fool, when you see them swirling and sniffing it's an act... if
that wine was clandestinely switched for box wine they'd continue
swirling, sniffing, and proclaiming its virtues precisely the same.
When humans are born they have more taste buds than they will ever
have, newborn's taste buds are present all the way down the throat to
the esophagus. By the time a human is one year old they've lost more
than half their taste buds and will lose half again every year of their
lives... which is why the more foods a young child is introduced to the
less they'll be averse to those particular foods as adults. RJ, that
lemonade mix tastes the same (if anything it's probably improved),
you've simply become an old fart, admit it.

Sheldon