Chatty Cathy wrote:

>
> Always wondered *how* people thought it tasted like soap - I have never
> had the urge to eat soap ...

Either did I. It was my mother's remedy for a dirty mouth :-)


But... it just dawned on me... there must
> be quite a few RFC-ers out there who had their "mouths washed out with
> soap" (for reasons we won't mention here) when they were kids - so I
> guess they *do* know what soap tastes like... Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.


Even without being subjected to that old punishment, didn't you ever
accidentally get soap in your mouth while washing your face?

What I really wonder about is people who say that something tastes like
shit. That really makes me wonder about their experiences and previous
taste tests.