Hey there, Anna. I've got a question here for you right off the start of this episode, and it is, what would your Spotify playlist, like maybe if you went into your Spotify and looked at your most recently played songs, what would that playlist tell us about you?
Actually, I have to say at the moment, luckily, maybe this would always be the same answer, But I think at the moment, I've got a load of quiet moment playlists, like lots of chill stuff and meditation moments and things like that.
So I guess it would say that I'm a very chilled or relaxed person.
But actually, it's kind of the opposite.
It's more that I need that type of music to chill me out sometimes after the end of the day, I just need something relaxing to put on.
So that is actually my most recently played.
I've got to be honest. What about you, Andrew?
I guess my playlist is really all over the place.
You know, I have this mega mix where just any time I come across a cool song, then I add it to my mega mix playlist. And it just covers literally all genres from world music to heavy metal to K -pop.
Like it's all on there.
So I think I would come across as having rather eclectic taste.
And so, Anna, the reason why I'm asking you this question here is because we are going to talk all about taste in today's Chatterbox episode.
For those of you who don't know, this is kind of a series that Anna and I have been doing over the last little while where we're talking about the senses.
We started off by talking about smells, specifically scents in the office.
But we also talked about feeling and textures and touch. And now here we are talking about taste.
And we're going to break this episode down into several parts.
We're going to talk about taste in the physical sense, like eating and drinking and tasting things with our tongues.
But we're also going to talk about taste, meaning personal preferences.
And yeah, in English, we use this word taste to talk about those two different things.
So we'll split it into a couple of parts, and we'll just enjoy a fun conversation here.
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Okay, so Anna, I think let's jump into it.
And like I said, we're going to break this down into a couple of parts.
The first part will be all about physical taste.
So using our tongues to taste food and beverages, I guess.
Anna, let me ask you this question to kick things off.
I'm wondering, do you think we're born with innate taste preferences like we like this food or we hate this food or is it something that changes over time well I think we must be in some way born with a certain taste profile and it makes me think of my sister because from a really early age like I'm talking when my sister was like one or two years old she absolutely loved olives which was like a very acquired taste for like a one -year -old yeah that's wild i know it's wild but not only the olives but the olive juice that was in the jar the brine brine yes the brine of the the the brine or of the the olives
and it just used to i can't stand really olives that taste is just very salty i'm not sure it's got a really unique taste i think olives and also texture so yeah she obviously was born with the taste preference for olive juice i don't know so maybe we are what do do you think i think yeah we probably have some innate preferences like an attraction to a certain food but i know that when i was younger i was i wouldn't say a super picky eater but i was definitely adverse to eating some kinds of foods i didn't like tomatoes i didn't like eggs really i mean i liked eggs when i was a little baby but then
when i became a child and teenager i thought eggs were gross so i'd never eat them but now i love them and there's a bunch of foods like that i didn't really enjoy eating seafood at all now i love it so yeah i think definitely it's 100 true that our tastes can evolve and that we can enjoy foods later in life that when we were kids we didn't really like but i'm wondering anna do you think when your mom was pregnant that maybe she She was eating a lot of olives or something?
I don't know. Baby?
I'm not sure. But my sister was obsessed with olives like you can't imagine.
And it was like, like we say in English, I'm going to repeat the phrase I said before.
It's a very acquired taste for a toddler.
You know, most toddlers don't like olives.
So it was really unusual.
And she actually really likes savory foods, so things like olives.
lives she also liked pepperonis which i'm not sure if people can get in other parts of the world do you know what that is andrea pepperoni is it like a stuffed pepper no no that would be much healthier no it's like a it's like a thin meat stick oh okay got it so it's like a spicy meat stick um and she would chop that up and well my mom would chop it up she wasn't chopping up food as a toddler but she would chop it my mom would chop it up and she would eat it with pasta so it was just pepperami and pasta and that was her thing so she's obviously got a taste for that savory flavors salty flavors
how about you Anna is there a food that you didn't like when you were younger but now you're okay with oh there's loads of things but I would say a drink rather than a food coffee, for example.
I remember when I was a teenager and my mum would drink coffee and I was like, oh, it stinks.
That's disgusting. How could you ever drink that?
I'm never going to drink coffee when I'm older.
That's disgusting. Yeah, that changed when I was about, that changed after university, I think.
When I started working, when I started actually having real responsibilities abilities and a job and working 12 hours a day that changed pretty fast. So I grew to love coffee and I absolutely adore a beautiful cup of coffee now, but I couldn't stand that bitter coffee taste when I was younger.
What about you, Andrew?
You said eggs. That was really interesting.
You used to hate the taste of eggs.
Yeah, maybe not the taste.
It was more of a texture thing.
i think to hearken back to our previous conversation about the textures what really got me was a runny yolk so the yolk is the yellow part of the egg in the middle and as you know guys you can cook eggs to different degrees of completion and if it's not quite completed and it's runny we call it a runny yolk meaning still pretty liquidy that kind of liquidy texture just really grossed me out when I was younger.
But now I love like all styles of eggs and a runny yolk is okay.
So I really came around.
And it's funny because my mom used to tease me, she'd say like, oh, when you're two or three years old, you used to take toast and dip it into the runny yolk and eat it that way.
And I liked that when I was like two or three, but something happened when I grew Grew up a little bit and then I've come full circle and now I'm okay with them.
But I remember also when I was younger, I think it was one of my uncles gave me a sip of his beer and I thought, oh, this is so gross.
Why do adults like drinking beer?
And then when I grew up a little bit more, I realized why adults like drinking beer.
And now, I mean, I don't drink too much alcohol these days, but I love non -alcoholic beers.
I got a bunch in my fridge and that's one of my favorite go -to's for like a refreshing beverage on a hot day as I love one of those beers.
So yeah, I can totally relate you with coffee, me with the taste of beer, something that we mature into, I suppose.
Exactly. As we become more adult and our tastes mature slightly, I guess.
Yes. And Andrew, have you ever completely lost your sense of taste before?
That's a good question.
No, I don't think I ever have. I know many, many people lost their sense of taste during COVID, right?
That was one of the main or major symptoms that a lot of people experienced.
Thankfully, that is not one that I experienced.
So I I don't know what it would be like to have no taste.
I've always assumed that it would be really great.
Oh yeah, if I couldn't taste anything, then I could just eat carrots and white fish all the time.
It wouldn't matter.
But I heard people say that even when you lose your sense of taste, you still crave the same kind of unhealthy foods maybe that you would even if you had your sense of taste.
Maybe it's deeper, right?
We're craving that fat or that sugar as humans.
humans. Unfortunately, we crave those things.
But yeah, no, never, never lost my sense of taste.
How about you, Anna?
Has that happened to you before?
Yeah, no, me neither.
Touch wood. Because I think it would be really depressing and really sad to lose your sense of taste.
And so I feel for any of you, if you're listening to this and you've lost your sense of taste, because it must be really horrible.
And actually, I think I heard something about a chef who lost their sense of taste they went into a depression because it's just so hard to we don't really think about that because you think oh yeah then I could just eat healthy food and it doesn't really matter but it's actually really hard for us if we can't taste food so yeah I'm really glad that I haven't lost my sense of taste and hopefully fingers crossed I won't in the future either yeah let's knock on wood that we both never lose our senses of taste in the future.
And I love that expression that you use there and a knock on wood.
Maybe some of our listeners don't know what that means, but you know, it's kind of a superstition that we have in our cultures where if we say something aloud, then maybe we'll jinx ourselves or we'll make it like more likely to come true in the future.
And so we can undo the jinx by knocking on wood.
But but even sometimes we can just say that phrase, knock on wood, meaning like, I hope this never comes true in the future, right?
So yeah, knock on wood that we never lose our senses of taste.
Okay, Anna, I have a question for you about British food.
Should I say controversial British food?
Like around the world, it's got this reputation of not being the most delicious cuisine, which I don't know if I agree with or not.
I think there's a lot of great British dishes out there but is there like a food from Britain that you could introduce to us that has maybe a weird or unexpected flavor or tastes a little strange or different than you might expect absolutely I've got one specific thing that if you go to the UK and you're listening to this you have to try it and it is called Marmite Andrew I don't know if you've ever heard of Marmite before?
Sure. Yeah. I think Australians love it too, perhaps.
Right. So Marmite is a spread.
So you put it on top of things like bread, for example, and it has a phrase actually in English.
And this is really interesting because we say Marmite, you either love it or you hate it.
And I think maybe that comes from the advertising originally.
And we actually use this now as an expression in different areas of life.
So we can use it it to describe people we could say well she's kind of Marmite you either love her or you hate her and Marmite it's you've just got to try it so it's like this dark brown spread in this jar and the taste is so strong so it's really salty it's really savory it's a little bit like a soy soy sauce.
It's got some vegetable undertones.
It's got meaty undertones.
I don't know how to describe it, but it's made from a yeast extract.
And it is well, like I said, you either love it or you hate it.
I personally hate it.
It's disgusting. Like I don't know how anybody can physically consume that and be a normal person, but some people absolutely love it.
So I think that is the most weird taste in British food.
It's just really strange.
It's the strangest thing ever.
I'm not sure if it is actually British, to be honest, but we have it in our supermarkets and things like this.
So yes, it's Marmite for me, Andrew.
That's the weird taste.
taste. Marmite. Hmm.
Okay. Yeah. I've never tried it.
I've definitely heard about it and I know about its reputation, but I kind of feel like maybe I would like it.
Like, you know, a lot of those foods that are really strong, like I love black licorice and I know a lot of people hate black licorice, but I really enjoy that as well.
I kind of feel like maybe I would like that.
I I tend to enjoy strong flavors.
And if it's a little bit controversial and some people hate it, then I'm almost more likely to enjoy it.
So I'm going to add it to the list. If I can find some here in Korea, I'll try it out on some toast, Marmite.
What about in Korea, Andrew?
Are there any very distinct foods or drinks that have a unique or surprising taste?
Oh, man, where should I start?
like the list is long for westerners or people who didn't grow up eating korean food i think there's a lot of different dishes that maybe are hard to stomach at first i have to say now i really really really love korean food and if i leave korea like on vacation then i miss korean food almost right away and i'm like oh where's the korean restaurant where i'm at like i need to get there.
So I love it. But in Canada, I'm going to switch it around here and go to my country in Canada.
There's a food that I think many people will have tried before, which is maple syrup.
And to me, it's such, you know, it's a delicious sweet syrup.
But I was thinking about it.
It's so weird that it comes from a tree, take this maple tree.
And in Canada, we just sort of tap this hollow tube into the tree and we just let the water and the sap of the tree just pour into a bucket and then we can heat it up, boil it down and then you have maple syrup and it's just like amazing, sweet, delicious food that comes from a tree.
I guess apples and oranges and other fruit, but like other food that comes from a tree.
I can't think of too many examples.
So I think think it's a pretty unique food and Canada doesn't really have too many foods that we can claim as our own but maple syrup is one that I'm proud of and that I enjoy eating when I get a chance to yeah I love maple syrup I've got some maple syrup in my in my cupboard actually and one thing that we've started doing at Christmas because we have a family member from Canada is pancakes with bacon in a maple syrup on Christmas morning, which I thoroughly enjoy.
Sounds okay to me. Good.
Anna, maybe we could transition now from talking about our flavor preferences and taste as a physical sense into more the other into the other way that we talk about taste in English.
And that is personal preferences.
And so we use this word taste when we're talking about the things that we we like or dislike.
And I was trying to brainstorm.
We could use taste in conjunction to talk about music, like your music taste, films, art, fashion, wine, maybe coffee.
We even use it sometimes to talk about partners, right?
Like if you're single and you're dating, maybe you talk about your taste in men or your taste in women or your taste in a partner.
Are there any other ways that we use taste that I haven't covered that maybe I didn't think of?
No, I think you did a really good job at covering that.
And also things to do with style, like you mentioned before, interior design as well, anything where you have to put things together, like in your home, decoration, all of those types of things.
We actually use it in loads of different categories.
So it's a really useful phrase to know.
know. I also wanted to teach everyone some adjectives that we use when we're talking about taste because we have these two opposites.
We have good taste and bad taste.
And of course, we can talk about good taste and bad taste, but that's a little boring.
And the English language has some really great adjectives that we could use for describing someone's taste.
So on the the good side of things we have these words like refined refined taste or sophisticated taste or impeccable taste and this just means really really good taste all of these adjectives are words that we would use to describe really high level good taste and then on the other side of the spectrum spectrum for bad taste.
We could describe it as maybe being gaudy G -A -U -D -Y gaudy taste, or I love this one, Anna questionable, questionable taste.
It's kind of a polite way to say somebody has bad taste, right?
If I said, Anna, you have questionable music tastes.
Maybe it means like, I don't really trust, or I don't really think that you have good taste.
And then we could also say tacky as well.
Somebody has tacky taste, which just means that they don't really like something that's beautiful or fine or nice.
It's more cheap and not so sophisticated.
So yeah, guys, some great adjectives that you can add to your vocabulary when you're talking about taste.
But Anna, I want to throw it over to you and just a basic question here.
I'm wondering, in general, do you think you have good taste?
Well, I mean, I think everybody thinks they've got good taste, right?
So I would say, of course, I've got good taste.
But I mean, really, absolutely, absolutely not.
I don't think I have good taste in a lot of things.
For example, maybe with, let's say, with fashion and clothes, my taste has definitely changed over the last few years.
but I have some friends who just it doesn't matter like they can just throw together an amazing outfit they just have really good taste and I would never be able to pick the things that they buy so I don't think I have very good taste in in that area or like home decoration you know it's like I can go to Ikea with the same a different person and they'll buy something that looks incredible and I'll buy something that doesn't so I don't know I think I have I don't have good taste in in in that area but i think i've got good taste in series actually i think i watch good series in comparison to other
people and like for example if i watch a film or something like that and i think it's awful like i think some people have a terrible taste in movies for example there's some movies that people watch and I think how can you possibly watch that is so bad I just don't even know how you can stay focused on that for like two and a half hours or an hour and a half I'm just like I can't do it so some people I know some of my friends have like a terrible taste in films so they'll be like oh Anna um why don't you watch this thing on Netflix I'm like yeah there's no way I'm gonna watch that because you've got
terrible taste in movies I'll skip that thanks Thanks.
So maybe I have good taste in some areas, but I think, I don't know, in some areas, definitely not.
What about you, Andrew?
Do you have good taste?
You mentioned you had eclectic taste in music, which I think is a nice way of putting it varied and interesting.
What about in other areas?
Yeah, I think my taste in music and again, this question is a little bit stupid because probably most people like what they like.
And so they're going to say like, yeah, of course I like what I like.
I have good taste. My taste is perfect for me.
And so of course, everybody's taste is perfect for them.
But in general, I do think that I have maybe a more refined music taste because I really, really love exploring different genres and finding out about new music and listening to many, many different styles of music.
So in that way, maybe I'm I'm different than just the casual music listener.
So I do think that I have pretty good music taste.
I also think the films that I watch, similar to you, Anna, I think I have good taste in movies and taste in TV, although maybe I don't get to watch as many as I would like.
I do think that when I do watch a movie, maybe I'm a little highbrow.
and highbrow means you know like I enjoy the kind of TV and film that is designed to make you think a little bit more deeply about life.
My wife has this great expression that she uses so sometimes she'll say I'm gonna watch this movie and I know it's stupid but it's just for killing time I'm just turning off my brain and I'm just gonna relax and enjoy and watch this killing time movie and so So I think that's great from time to time.
We all need to do that.
But in general, I tend to sway the more thought -provoking kinds of movies and TVs and less towards the killing time movie and TV shows.
Although I can, yeah, I can get down with a killing time movie from time to time.
I think in terms of film and TV, maybe I have good taste.
In terms of fashion, I think I have good taste, but no time or money.
to put it together.
So as a result, I have bad taste.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, no, I know exactly what you mean.
I know exactly what you mean.
Yeah, of course. I think if I had unlimited time and money to go shopping, then I would probably look really stylish.
I think I have a good sense of what to put together.
But because of budget and time limitations, I end up not looking very fashionable, which is really painful because you're aware, it's your self -aware right you're like I know this outfit is not so great but I can't do anything about it so that's a little bit unfortunate yeah I'm also kind of a snob when it comes to coffee and I don't like this about myself but I've developed into a coffee snob and so I think I'm starting to get a good sense of what delicious coffee really tastes like so yeah my taste in coffee is unfortunately I don't like this about myself but I'm becoming a snob in that regard
there's nothing wrong with being coffee snob Andrew and we have a phrase for that in English right it's life's too short for bad coffee or something like that I think which is what people say and I completely agree I'm like if I go into a bar or a coffee shop because here in Spain it's quite common to have coffee shops which are more trendy and then you have kind of your standard standard bars.
And sometimes I think, you know, I would rather actually just not have a coffee than have a bad coffee.
So I'm a little bit of a coffee snob as well, Andrew, which I have also developed over the last few years.
I remember when I used to drink coffee, I started out drinking milk and then you would have like powdered coffee that you would buy in jars.
And I mean, no shade if you if you drink that now it's everyone has different tastes, right?
Or everyone likes different products but i can't believe i used to drink that because it's so nasty like if i try and eat it if i try eat it no if i try and drink it now it's so gross so i'm happy that i my taste has improved slightly over the last 10 years or so in terms of coffee yeah and i don't know if you've ever heard of tim hortons before but it's a famous coffee shop and donut shop but the food food and the coffee especially is like, oh, so bad.
And it's known as being like this famous coffee shop in Canada.
And whenever I go to Tim Hortons and I try the coffee, I'm like, I just can't do it.
How do people drink this stuff?
And I used to drink it all the time.
Like when I was a student in Canada, that would be my go -to is go to Timmy's and grab a coffee.
And I just thought it was normal.
And I probably would have said it was delicious at the time and now, oh, can't do it so yeah i've turned into a coffee snob absolutely on the same page with that and going back to other taste areas so films and series and things it just popped into my head as well my mom is watching this series called ted lasso and i i it was just so awful okay now sorry if you're listening to this and you've watched it and you think oh i love it because everybody has different taste.
But I was just like, Mom, I can't even watch 10 minutes of this.
It's so bad. So if my mom says anything like, Oh, I've been watching a new series.
And it's really nice.
I'm like, Yeah, okay.
We have completely different taste in series, and movies and films. So I'm like, I'm not going to take any recommendations from my mom.
And another adjective you could use with taste as well is weird so my brother has a bit of a weird taste in movies like he's a big film buff he loves films and movies but if you say okay Tom can you choose a film for us to put on it's always a bit of a risky thing because you know he'll pick a very sort of weird weird obscure offbeat film which is not really sort of family friendly so he has quite a weird eclectic taste in movies which is very admirable but not very mainstream let's say and that got me thinking about something and maybe we could transition with this question into the kind of the wrap
-up segment of this episode where we'll just sort of reflect on taste and that is are you Are you good at getting along with people who have a taste for music or movies or anything really that really varies differently from your own taste?
Do you have any experience like maybe one of your close friends or something having a really different interests and tastes than you do?
sure i mean i've had friends and who have very different taste in let's say fashion or maybe in films or books or whatever but for me it's taste and personality are just not the same thing so i think we're very quick sometimes to make a judgment based on somebody's taste but for me it doesn't reflect somebody's personality we can have totally different taste in movies but we can get along along really well.
So for me, it's not a barrier, for example, if somebody is like, oh, I really like this, and they have a taste for this, maybe it just means that we can't connect on every single point.
But for me, I don't know, I think people make judgments too quickly about people's tastes.
And, you know, it doesn't necessarily have to reflect somebody's whole personality.
In fact, you could say that it's quite good to have people that have different tastes, because they can introduce you to different things that maybe you hadn't thought thought about before I remember I had a friend who was super trendy she always used to have amazing taste in fashion and it was great because I learned so much from her she would be like oh why don't you put this together or why don't you buy this or so actually it can be really good to be friends with people that have different tastes because you can find new things and that can be really fun yeah I completely agree it's nice to have people
that can introduce you to new things and it's it's cool in that way when you have sort of a different background or a different set of things that you enjoy that you can share with each other.
But I'm trying to think like I have a lot of friends who have completely different tastes than I do.
And some people like radically different music, radically different movies, radically different aesthetic style for the clothes they wear and stuff.
And I think the end of the day is not really too important like if that's not the central part of the friendship then it doesn't matter to me of course if I went to like maybe I wanted to join a book club and I joined the book club and I thought all of the other members of the book club liked books that I thought are stupid and they always want to read these stupid books then probably I'd be like this is not the book club for me because we just have totally different opinions about what good literature is, for example.
But outside of the book club, maybe those people would be awesome friends and wonderful and we could connect in different ways.
So as long as it's not like the central focus of the friendship, then I think having different tastes is totally okay and probably a good thing, as you mentioned.
Although at the same time, it is nice to like bro down and connect over something that you both really enjoy of course absolutely and that's a really good point but i mean i have to admit if somebody said oh i just watched ted lasso and it was great i loved it i'd be like really i'd be questioning i'd be questioning your taste but then i would of course it's funny right it's banter as well people that have different tastes you can kind of tease people about it and you can be like oh my goodness how can you possibly like that so maybe i would make a quick judgment on the a ted lasso but then i'm
sure i could let you off um after it no shade to ted lasso by the way my goodness it's funny i heard a lot of good things about that show so i don't know i haven't watched it myself but just i've heard that it's it's quite funny this is a thing i think it's a conspiracy because i watched it and i was there's no way people find this funny like there's just no way i i don't know you guys have to maybe chip in on this if you've watched it but i couldn't see it And like you said, Andrea, I've heard loads of good things about it.
It's got great reviews.
Everybody's like, oh, it's fantastic.
I was like, this is the worst series I've ever seen in my life.
So maybe that says more about me than it does about the series.
I'm not sure. sure and i'll ask you one question here just to wrap up with a kind of funny question but have you ever been embarrassed by something you like you said that you know from time to time maybe you could tease somebody about liking something that you thought was not so good but have you been on the receiving end has somebody teased you or made fun of you because of something that you liked that maybe didn't show off the best parts of your taste um well i could think I think of one example, but this wasn't recent.
This was when I was much younger.
So when I was younger, I had a really odd taste in fashion.
So I would put things together that were really strange.
So I went through a phase of wearing dresses over trousers.
Now, I'm not talking about like short dresses.
I'm talking about long dresses over trousers.
trousers sorry to interrupt but you mean over top right yeah over the top not that you prefer no no no over the top no that would be better no no this was literally putting a dress over trousers kind of like wearing a sari or something like this but i'm not really sure where that came from because nobody was doing it at the time and i remember that people would kind of give me a bit bit of a weird look.
And I got a few comments from some of my friends at school like, you look weird. Like, why are you wearing a dress with trousers?
Yeah, I don't really know where I got that from.
So, but yeah, that was one time that I got a little bit, people were saying sort of mean things about me, but I still wore it.
I wore it for a few months.
It was a phase that I went through.
But yeah, I'm glad that my taste has improved somewhat since then.
Very odd choice. I'm not really sure where that came from.
What about you, Andrew?
Yeah, I mean, depending on certain situations that you can find yourself in, maybe I could be a little bit embarrassed or feel like I'm being judged as a weirdo for some of the things that I like.
I've mentioned on Q -Lips before that I'm a huge Bjork fan, but she's pretty out there.
She's cool, but she's kind of an odd duck.
And for people who maybe aren't used to that style of music.
If they heard her or saw her perform, they'd be like, this is kind of weird. Andrew, why do you like her?
I also like a lot of just bubblegum pop stars.
I love Taylor Swift. I love Beyonce.
I love Charli XCX. In certain circles, maybe my rock friends would be like, why do you like this kind of pop music?
Come on. I thought you were a rock guy.
So I don't know. It depends when you're hanging out with people who don't really enjoy that thing.
And then you say, yeah, I love it, then maybe you'd feel judged for liking it.
And maybe that would make me feel a little bit self -conscious, but I got to stick up for what I, for what I like.
I think if I enjoy it, then it's okay.
I shouldn't feel embarrassed about it.
Exactly. And people in music can be very judgy because like you said, people that have a very eclectic taste or very specific taste or alternative taste.
If you say, oh, I like Taylor Swift. They're like, oh, you know, that's so basic or so obvious or whatever, but I think she's an incredible artist. So I think people can be a little bit snobby with music, especially, but pop's great.
And like you said, there's nothing wrong with liking the things that you enjoy listening to.
I remember now that you're a Swifty, so I'm in safe company with you.
Exactly. All right.
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