To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] King of fruits?
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:36:30 -0700 (PDT)
Bill, this way OT, but most people can tell different kinds of beer apart in a blind taste test, they just usually can't tell different brands of the same kind apart. Especially when those beers are all American adjunct lagers that contain more rice than barley. You would be hard pressed to find someone who couldn't tell a stout from a Belgian golden strong ale.
From: William C. Garthright <billg@inebraska.com> To: Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
<parmarch_mnd@dataone.in>; North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 11:28:25 AM Subject: Re: [NAFEX] King of fruits?
> Sometimes we are unduly fussy and conservative about new things.
True. It's hard to tell, because taste (and smell) are very subjective. If you think something is going to taste good, it's more likely to actually taste good. And if you expect it to be bad-tasting, it probably will be. Blind-tasting tests often show that people can't tell the difference between different types of beer, or whatever, without seeing them, even though they expressed distinct preferences for particular brands. It's kind of funny.
Not to say that there aren't real taste preferences, of course. Who knows why we like certain things? But as fruit explorers, we're probably more ready than most to try new things. And that eagerness to experiment probably means that we're more likely to enjoy different tastes. I know people - seriously, I do, and more than one - who won't try ANY Chinese food, because they're just
certain that they'll hate it. They've never tried it, but they're still certain. Those kinds of people aren't likely to enjoy anything new.
And I suppose there's the matter of just getting used to it, too. I really disliked my clove currents the first year they produced fruit. I was hugely disappointed. But this year, they didn't seem so bad. Heh, heh. Who knows? I may be raving about them soon enough.
:-)
Bill Lincoln, NE (zone 5)
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