The issue is not merely taste.
I brought the product to Pepsico in late 1993, and they rejected it after merely tasting it.
Combined, the two assumptions lead to a view under which, to pick up Krystal's metaphor, we think of books the way we often think of foods: there those that are "good for you" and those that merely "taste good".
No, it merely tastes well-seasoned.
We'd like to say that we were merely taste testing the products to determine if they were worthy of your palates, dear readers, but sometimes we were just curious.
The erstwhile Fat Lady's role, beyond consulting on the menu, was not to cook but merely to taste what the kitchen had produced, then speak to guests one night.
Was he being priestly – it felt to me as if I'd just taken communion – or was he merely embarrassed at my having travelled for the best part of an hour merely to taste his oh-so-humble dish?
Nothing buys Or keeps a revelation that was meant For eyes not ours and once seen is soon spent: For all our sakes she should be left alone, Guarded by legends of how men went mad Merely from tasting her, of monsters who Died from her kiss.
At New China, you can get not one, but two kinds of river eel: stir-fried with scallion, and Liang Xi, crisp pieces, golden brown and crunchy, a deep-fried tangle that, when done perfectly as on one visit, beats French fries, but another time, didn't leave the fryer in time and tasted merely burned.
