not only a UK thing ..

when I have a cold for instance my sense of taste is drastically lowered aswell - smell has a big influence on taste (atleast for me)

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I do Sudokus, that's probably not thaaat "weird".

This man is correct. About 90% of our "taste" is actually our smell. Do you not feel food is bland when you have a cold?

No, we even tested this in biology class by closing our eyes and then trying to guess what we were tasting and the results were that we couldn't do it for most things when our eyes+nose were closed, but if only our eyes were closed it was easy as pie. Some of the food did even have a strong flavor.

Of course, this doesn't go for everything (such as odorless drinks like you said). Try it on chocolate or coffee.

http://www.entnet.org/HealthInformation/smellTaste.cfm

Certain tastes combine with texture, temperature, and odor to produce a flavor that allows us to identify what we are eating.

Many flavors are recognized through the sense of smell. If you hold your nose while eating chocolate, for example, you will have trouble identifying the chocolate flavor, even though you can distinguish the food’s sweetness or bitterness. This is because the familiar flavor of chocolate is sensed largely by odor. So is the well known flavor of coffee. This is why a person who wishes to fully savor a delicious flavor (e.g., an expert chef testing his own creation) will exhale through his nose after each swallow.

NintendoPie said: haxxiy said: I always take something to read, and if I don't, a shampoo bottle does it. Not really weird but still... Where's the VGC member who said when he's really constipated he digs the shit out of his butt? Lol... I admit to doing this. xD

Yeah this Ammonium Laureth Sulfate is really interesting stuff