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Tampering with Taste Buds for Better Coffee?
An anonymous reader writes "A Globe and Mail article states that scientists are busy working on making everything taste great: " In a small office just west of the New Jersey Turnpike, researchers are taking the human taste bud into a brave new world.
Here, it is not cream or milk that the employees of Linguagen Corp. add to their morning java, but a dash of a biological compound that fools their brain into thinking that black, bitter coffee is as smooth as a milky double latte"
There goes my experience with making good coffee... Now instead of being careful and buying good coffee, grinding it themselves, brewing it properly, everyone will buy folgers and percolate it and sprinkle some pixie dust stuff into it and it will taste good. Assholes...
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Hopefully they'll be able to use these compounds in medicines and other neccesary, but distasteful products...
Or they'll release it in paste form and it'll become a sex toy. Ah, America!
is made from people!
We'll call it soylet green!
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then I could...
;)
Sorry, thats just wrong.
- gtaluvit (prnc. GOT-tuh-LUV-it)
Some of us already LIKE black coffee...don't go messing it up for us you insensitive clod! I like my coffee like I like my women...bitter.
Violet! You're turning violet, violet!
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
How is this different from Starbucks?
The ______ Agenda
Shooting heroin turns any unpleasant experience into a pleasant one not just tasting crappy coffee into tasting smooth coffee.
You did read your EULA, didn't you?
42. Easy. What is 32 + 8 + 2?
I've always wondered if it would be possible to make some sort of mint or pill, etc, that would highten senses in the taste buds to make kissing better... ...not that I have a girlfreind or anything.
*ducks*
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute chat with the average voter."
--Winston Churchill
WHAT THE HELL is the POINT of a decaf skim-milk latte?
Some comic said he went to Baskin-Robbins and had a non-fat, sugar-free frozen yogurt and thought, "I just bought a bowl of Cold."
I had a girlfriend who was acutely sensitive to MSG; she got an instant headache over her left eye after just one or two bites of something. (My grandomother is the same way, and they both suffer from the thyroid condition known as Graves Disease. Coincidence?)
It's no coincidence! Your girlfriend is your sister!
the smell, the deducing aroma that fills you with an eager anticipation of the magnificent black gold that is about to wash down your throat (oh my god, someone gimme a coffee right NOW! :)
now I HAVE TO GO MAKE SOME COFFEE
Folger's coffee. MMMMM! Tastes like chicken!
How ya like dat?
a reduced fat oil
Is that anything like "low moisture water"?
Will I retire or break 10K?
So that's what they did to cafeteria food . . .
Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
One of the devs in our division drinks double-shot decaf lattes with skim milk and without foam. When he walks up to the espresso bar with his coffee cup, the barista asks him "A double tall why bother, right?"
I can already see a small bottle of this being sold in a package along with a 12-pack of viagra.
"It's cheap."
"Cheap."
"Soy-based."
"Soy-based!"
After instantaneous adoption from fast-food restaurants and chain coffee shops, the substance will later be found to be allergenic/carcinogenic. Moral corporations will discontinue use, and the rest will face class-action lawsuits to remove the substance from their food.
You read it here first.
This was a fictional cartoon, of course. In real life, the three laws of toast-making appliances prevent an artificial intelligence from causing harm to toast (or through inaction, etc.).
Personally I do not believe children should watch scenes like the one you describe - there should be some sort of ratings system governing these matters.
Could I interest anyone in some toast?
Guy: Mrmff. Mrffmfsf. (lifts head) I know, but I thought I'd give it a try because I love you and stuff.
Girl: You're the best, I'm going to treat you to a steak dinner tonight. (moans, titls head back, closes eyes)
Guy: (Sprinkles more powder).
They fool their customer into thinking that their milky double latte is coffee.
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
...like their coffee the way they like their humans: ground up and vacuum-sealed into a little brick-shaped bag.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
Next thing you know the music industry will want to make an enchantment that fools your brain into thinking that the TeenbandCorporated is actually good.
They have a term for it already: Lobotomy.
Screw that. You go to the machine, you put in 50 cents, you get a cup of something dark that you can pretend is coffee and you drop a slug of bourbon in it. Then you go to the meeting and complain that "We have never done it that way before and when we did, it failed".
What's the point of grinding beans and measuring water temperature if you are going to pour cheap bourbon it?
If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem