"It tastes like burning plastic, noxious chemicals," CrackDoubt says.
At an otherwise pleasant Saturday-evening meal with friends, he joined his companions in compulsively checking for updates.Those previously unseen numbers were hard to believe, but they did seem to match up well enough with the noxious soup we could see, smell and taste outside.
But dulled taste perception might be dangerous if noxious substances spill into the water.
Why one would wish to acquire a taste for dark chocolate, which contains a noxious excitotoxin, and not for carob, which has no such chemical compounds in it, is beyond the comprehension of this author.
When a person gets a classic migraine, a noxious stimulus -- a bright light, a loud noise or an unfamiliar taste -- sets off a wave of electrical excitation across the brain.
The season for Tuber magnatum Pico -- a fungus that looks like a potato, smells and tastes like nothing else on earth (straw, honey, damp earth, spices, garlic and noxious effluvia have all been mentioned) and costs upward of $2,000 a kilo -- lasts until January.
Sweet, umami and salt modalities allow recognition of energy-containing nutrients and maintenance of electrolyte balance, while sour and bitter taste modalities are thought to act as brakes or warnings against further ingestion of rancid or noxious foods.
Taste disorder was graded using the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events v3.0 published by the National Cancer Institute (negative: no change in taste; slight: altered taste but no change in diet; moderate: altered taste with change in diet or noxious or unpleasant taste; severe: loss of taste) [ 14].
And weirdly, cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, are often cited by supers as tasting horribly bitter but actually, says Utermohlen, "they have a chemical in them that activates the noxious cold receptor in the mouth, a sensation that many people interpret as bitter".
Osgood called these practices "noxious".
