Tasting Colours.

[wolven7]

Tonight's Futurama involved the line "Did everything just taste Purple, for a second?" resulting in conversations, with mech_angel, comorbid, and mendori, about Synethesia, and things tasting like colours.

Please remember, Colours don't taste like Anything. Things taste like colours, but Colours taste like Themselves.

Known Foods/Drinks That Taste Like Colours: Faygo Jazzin' Blue. Tastes Like The Colour Blue. Found out, at my 19th birthday party.

Sunkist Orange Soda. Tastes Orange.

From mech_angel: A kind of kool-aid tastes Pink.

From mendori: A Green Colour of Nergy tastes Green. NERGY. To which i said 'You know what? No. TOO Close, to "Nergal."'

I'm sure there are more, and these have been quantified and qualified, by more objective sources, than simply the people involved, in these conversations. Do you have any? Tell us, here. We'll Run Tests. *Grins*

Out.

Comments

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

I think it's one of the Mountain Berry kinds. It tastes it's colour. :P

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yesss. Ssseemsss to be a pattern... We'll have to run sstrict Testss. Moo hoo ha ha...

[mendori.livejournal.com]

Im damned curious now. Acording to this little bit im reading here...

" It is rare for smell and taste to be either the trigger or the synesthetic response. Aside from my case VE, I have found no other in which sight evokes smell; and other than my index case MW, in which taste and smell evoked widespread tactile experience, I have found none in which smell itself is the trigger. In addition to MW, I am aware of only one other synesthete in whom taste induces a secondary sense, in this instance an experience of color."

I find this to be interesting considering how the first examples we all come up with are things that taist colors.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, i've never been one to do things the way textbooks say

[ex-aporia643.livejournal.com]

blue sweet tarts taste like the color blue.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Not as much as the Faygo. There's too much sugar in the sweet tarts...

[xabigailx.livejournal.com]

I have never associated tastes with colors. I've always felt that things smell like colors. For instance, I prefer to only wear perfumes that smell like the colors purple and orange.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Now that is also Very interesting... Try some of the above mentioned beverages and candies. See what you think.