I pity the fool who wont drink my wife's bloody mary mix!
Posted on 05/26/2015 1:54:32 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Ever noticed how tomato juice tastes better on a plane?
Cornell University researchers say there's a scientific reason for that.
While tomato juice isn't the most popular beverage at, say, restaurants or parties, people tend to order a lot of it while flying.
In 2008, German airliner Lufthansa revealed that 27% of its customers order tomato juice, but 23% of those said they never buy it on the ground.
Turns out, the stuff actually tastes better in the air thanks to a combination of noise pollution and umami, a Japanese term for the sweet, savory tastes produced by amino acids.
"Our study confirmed that in an environment of loud noise, our sense of taste is compromised. Interestingly, this was specific to sweet and umami tastes, with sweet taste inhibited and umami taste significantly enhanced," Robin Dando, assistant professor of food science at Cornell, said in a press release.
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Nah. Put the salt shaker down....tilt back as desired;-)
Tomato juice actually outsells beer on Lufthansa flights
Who would have thunk it......
V8 is 90% tomato with 7 other juices (Lettuce, beet, spinach, carrot, parsley, celery and (drum roll) watercress).....
Whew, Ya had Me starting to get concerned about Your BP.
Back to the thead, whenever I fly commercial, regardless of the time of day, service comes around...”Why yes ma’am! Mr. And Mrs. T, and two Smirnoff’s, please.”
Home canned is the best. I only have one quart left and it is hidden away. Saving it for a special breakfast. I can’t seem to keep the stuff in the house. This last year we really suffered because our tomato harvest was so tiny that we didn’t have enough to can.
Lots of people can tomatoes but I thought I was the only one who cans the juice. Nothing quite like it available commercially.
Just noticed, we’re both in Illinois. I’m in central Illinois, near Pekin.
Same with mushrooms too.
Same with crab juice too.
I have Mr Pibb, or Crab Juice.
Ewwwwwwwwwww. Ummm,,aaaaah, sheeeesh, okay, gimme a crab juice.
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