On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Sojourner wrote: > > Chile-Heads? What taste would you call hot peppers? > > > > Think of some of the spices used in food, like cumin. I'd call it bitter, > > however I like it, and use it. YMMV > > > > There are others that come to mind, like horseradish. > > None of those spring to mind when I think of "bitter". With the > exception of cumin, which I use all the time and have never thought of > as giving food a bitter flavor, those are all hot/spicy. Hot/spicy is > probably a mixture of other tastes. Maybe "bitter" is a component, but > its not one that springs to the forefront of my mind. > > Bitter turns your oral region into a vacuum. Bitter is as far beyond > sour as pluto is beyond mercury. I can't think of a single food item I > would categorize as truly bitter. Bitter is an alternate taste > universe. It's just ... bitter. Angustura bitters??? Chuck Demas Needham, Mass. Eat Healthy | _ _ | Nothing would be done at all, Stay Fit | @ @ | If a man waited to do it so well, Die Anyway | v | That no one could find fault with it. demas@tiac.net | \___/ | http://www.tiac.net/users/demas