Every single person that’s ever told me they were a supertaster has in fact been an incredibly, annoyingly, almost militantly picky eater. I think the term is bandied about without actual knowledge of what it means. BKeats is right, they think of it as a superpower.
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Very possibly
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My kids and I did a super taster project when my daughter was in the third grade! Pictures of their tongues with tastbuds encircled by hole protectors!
No wonder they need therapy.
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Flair, as in with a Latin flair, or a Cajun flair. Bugs me.
But is flair as in Office Space OK? Or then again, maybe not? 
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Interesting. Not sure I am permitted to type this but generally women have a stronger sense of taste and smell. Exceptions as always. In Doylestown Penna there is a fellow who owns a comic and gaming shop. He runs card tournaments on the regular and gamers are not well known for their impeccable grooming habits. Again, I know, exceptions. So he has a very good sense of smell, which goes along with taste and smelly gamers as customers. This leads to him running fans in the shop on cool nights and spraying strong cans of something or other to mist the air to the extreme. Yeah I don’t go there any more. But taste and smell are linked. For me, the worst part of a nasty head cold is not much of a sense of taste. I would not want to be a super taster.
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Did any of you turn out to be supertasters??
I used to have a pretty good palate and a really, REALLY good sense of smell. But years of allergic rhinitis and treatments for stuffiness have rendered my sense of smell way,way down. I can hardly smell anything any more, which breaks my heart, because as you said, smell is a big part of taste.
I hope I didn’t skip over somebody else’s posting this, but when I read or hear “the taste exploded in my mouth” I automatically roll my eyes. Kindly spare me your foodgasms (which is another annoying term, by the way).
My daughter had the requisite number of tastebuds. She has since shared her families “experiments”, suggesting that in retrospect, she thought it might have been…unusual.
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I could not agree more. To me this seems like the writer is taking the attention away from the food and focusing on how “cute” they look eating the food. #sigh
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Lol, particularly when it’s “flare.”
Thanks for the spellcheck
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Oh no, you have it right. The cringey ”flare” mistake is made by a lot of other people.
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Unusual how? If you don’t mind sharing, of course. Is she a “gastronome, or has an incredible palate”, or kind of a particular eater?
Not dissing your daughter or other supertasters, now that I see what I said in the cold light of day I’m embarrassed, my sample size for the conclusion is pitifully small for a conclusion. But that’s been my experience, tiny as it is compared to actual studies.
None of her friends had dyed taste buds on their posters. None of her friends had any taste buds! She thought the pictures were “gross”
She also has pictures of other experiments, like versions of recipes we tried, what was the flavors we noticed and similar. I can’t remember the details but I remember her Facebook posts.
“My family…”
She eats a variety of things but has an aversion to a number of textures and words like “milky”.
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That’s weird- where did their little taste buds go? Grade school data sample gathering or cafeteria food burnout? /s
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I kind of cringe when I see TV-type chefs describing food as “unctuous”. For most of my life that word has had a negative connotation, e.g., the oily used car salesman flattering you in hopes of making a sale.
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