[HN Gopher] Can music make food taste better?
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Can music make food taste better?
Author : cainxinth
Score : 37 points
Date : 2024-05-28 12:32 UTC (1 days ago)
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| jonny_eh wrote:
| wow, just found out about this via my this children's science
| podcast I listen to with my son:
| https://tinkercast.com/podcasts/wow-in-the-world/drop-that-b...
| jgalt212 wrote:
| Please give me something the opposite way around. I'd like food
| to taste worse, so I'll eat the bare minimum, and never run the
| risk of overindulging. Ideally, I'd like food to taste a little
| better than medicine.
| Nuzzerino wrote:
| Sure,
| https://flavourjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1...
|
| Looking forward to your results
| simmerup wrote:
| This is easy, just eat boiled potatoes, meat and veg
| knicholes wrote:
| Give Nickelback a try.
| hooverd wrote:
| WHAT!? I can't taste my food over the music in here!
| et-al wrote:
| I'd pretty sure certain restaurants and bars bump up the volume
| purely so patrons cannot have a conversation and can only focus
| on eating and drinking.
| scrame wrote:
| I don't think you're wrong.
|
| https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/bay-area-restaurants-
| sen...
| bbarnett wrote:
| Most of my restaurant trips are to enjoy a meal with
| friends or family, and talk. I wonder the logic.
| SoftTalker wrote:
| Also the modern restaurant/bar interior is all tile and other
| hard surfaces: very noisy. This is partly for sanitary
| reasons but also to encourage people to eat and get out.
| bobthepanda wrote:
| it turns out that rising real estate costs hit everybody
| and now everyone is trying to optimize every last dollar to
| make rent.
| bagels wrote:
| Encourages me to get out and not come back. I don't return
| to noisy places.
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| Related: a bottle of Nier: Automata wine that was aged in a
| barrel while listening to the Nier: Automata OST:
|
| https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/this-nier-automata-wine-ha...
| animanoir wrote:
| Yes.
| tqi wrote:
| Interesting, this effect sounds very similar to how the words
| used to describe wine cause you to taste those notes.
| subpar wrote:
| I've always wanted to start a company that does thoughtful sound
| design for restaurants using some of these research findings. 90%
| of restaurant sound is just an awful afterthought.
| bbarnett wrote:
| Hey if you do this, and engineer individual control within a
| seating area, please also add "off", for those thst generally
| prefer no noise, to music.
| bobthepanda wrote:
| The sound is not just about taste in restaurants.
|
| Fine dining sounds different from your hipster brewery, which
| sounds different from your mall food court, and often is
| tailored to produce a class/experience-appropriate aesthetic.
|
| There is also the whole "authenticity" thing where manufactured
| sound may make an establishment feel like a cheap theme park if
| you're not careful.
| cheeze wrote:
| Fat Duck had a dish "sounds of the ocean" which was served with
| headphones. Pretty gimmicky but yeah, I totally believe in the
| power of the placebo.
| burningChrome wrote:
| From the movie 1992 "Singles" where one of the main characters is
| working on the traffic problem:
|
| _" Single people get in their cars every morning. They drive and
| wonder why there's gridlock. This is what I've been working on.
| If you had a supertrain...you give people a reason to get out of
| their cars. Coffee, great music...they will park and ride. I know
| they will."_
|
| _" But I still love my car, though."_
|
| I always thought it was interesting he thought by giving people
| good coffee mixed with great music, people would be more inclined
| to ride public transportation.
| noduerme wrote:
| That was when people went to independent coffeehouses to hang
| out, talk, listen to music, read books, etc., not to plug in
| their laptops or work. The third place hadn't yet morphed into
| a shared office space.
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