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"

Comments

Oh, Shit

[adamjaskie]

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...

Hmm...

[Kipper the Llama]

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!

Re:Hmm...

[GigsVT]

Don't knock the green death flavor man.

"NyQuil is the secret for all you twelve step recovery program people. Yes, all you AA people, NyQuil is the key! It's the thirteenth fucking step! You can drink it! It's over the counter! Drink as much as you want. ''Are you drunk?'' ''No! I have a cold. Same cold I've had for two years. I just can't seem to shake it. I'm high as a kite and my teeth are green. Merry fucking Christmas!"

Black Coffee

[AltImage]

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.

Re:Black Coffee

[Aerog]

I can't resist. . . .

I like my coffee like I like my women. . .tied up in a burlap sack and dragged across the Andes on a donkey.

Yes it's an awful joke. I just thought it was so fitting here.

News?

[cgenman]

fool brains into thinking that black, bitter coffee is as smooth as a milky double latte

How is this different from Starbucks?

Re: Hmmmm

[Antity]

You know, I use these genes everyday. Am I in violation of the patent owned by Senomyx Inc?

You did read your EULA, didn't you?

Kissing

[EverStoned]

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.

Re:Warm milky latte?

[qengho]

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."

Spits or Swalllows?

[tantech]

Finally, the excuse of "it tastes weird" will be replaced by "GIVE ME MORE"! The age-old question of "Spits of Swallows" will become extinct!

I can already see a small bottle of this being sold in a package along with a 12-pack of viagra.

Does it make *everything* better?

[Eric_Cartman_South_P]

Girl: What are you doing? It feels nice! You've never done that before!

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).

Its Reversed

[Yokaze]

They fool their customer into thinking that their milky double latte is coffee.