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

I work at Linguagen Corp.

[Elwood P Dowd]

And I don't drink coffee. I just put the compound in a cup, go to my cube to drink it, and collapse under my desk in ecstacy. A few hours later I wake up covered in jism and ready to work.

Re:I work at Linguagen Corp.

[Elwood P Dowd]

Obscene != troll, mods. That was funny.

Re:If only

[Kipper the Llama]

That's what you get for using your blowup doll as a catfood dish on the side.

Hello?

[ctve]

Why don't scientists do something useful like cure AIDS, or solve poverty or work out how to make toast fall so it isn't jam side down. This is just one of these "food shortcut" things. Like the cans of coffee that heat up when you open them. What's wrong with finding a cafe? I personally have a one-cup cafetiere, buy "gourmet" and make it with filtered water. That's so I don't have to drink chemical instant shit at work. And I like it the way it is... bitter. I'll add milk myself, thanks.

Re:Warm milky latte?

[martyn s]

What does the name "Columbia" have to do with good coffee? The country I think you're referring to is "Colombia".

marijuana

[Anonymous Coward]

weed also makes every thing tastes great