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the taste your tongue invented to scream poison before your brain catches up
means Having a sharp, harsh, often unpleasant taste like quinine or strong coffee — or, of feelings, marked by lingering resentment and pain.
from From Old English 'biter,' meaning sharp, cutting, or harsh, and ultimately tied to the root of 'bite' — the same Germanic source. The thread is intuitive: a bitter taste is one that seems to bite the tongue, and the leap from the taste on your mouth to the taste in your heart was made early. Related to German 'bitter' and likely traceable to a Proto-Germanic root meaning 'to bite.'
- receptor count
- humans have about 25 bitter receptor types
- survival tool
- detects toxic alkaloids in plants instantly
- acquired love
- coffee and beer override the warning on purpose
- prenatal
- fetuses grimace at bitter in the womb
amaro montenegro — italian herbal liqueur with 40 botanicals, founded 1885 in bologna, intensely bitter digestif
indian pale ale — beer style with high hop bitterness (40-100+ ibu), originating 18th century for british india trade routes
radicchio di treviso — italian chicory vegetable from veneto region with deep burgundy leaves and distinctly bitter taste