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Re: A question of semantics

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 13, 2003, 15:35
>"There is a similar one with describing tastes. Something like 60%of >Caucasians cannot distinguish bitter and sour. It is extremely hard to >explain the distinction to someone who cannot, and is notaware of the >fact and roughly what the difference is."
I must be in the 40% as they are to me distinctly different. I assume this is genetic, similar to that 30% for whom cilantro tastes like soap. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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