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ICYMI - What Coffee Tastes Like When Your Taste Buds Are Built Differently
Super taster sounds like a compliment. It isn't. It's a genetic condition where bitter tastes register so intensely that coffee arrives as liquid body odor and alcohol lands like Windex. Nearly a quarter of the population has it. Most of them have no idea there's a name for it.
There is a specific social cost to having a body that genuinely rejects what everyone else is drinking. Not preference, a physical response so strong Yale researchers gave it a name in the 1990s. A home test using food coloring can confirm it: fifteen or more visible taste buds in the stained area and you qualify.
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