POLL: Would you rather give up Music or Taste?

[Qizx]

Well I was reading another thread where music in video games was talked about and it got me thinking about a question I once posed to my GF. If you had to give up Music or Taste, which would you choose? For the purpose of this when I say taste I mean you can still eat and obtain nutrients obviously, but everything you eat would neither be pleasant, nor bad. Just blase. The music portion would mean you could never hear or listen to music ever again.

Personally I would probably give up taste, I spend so much of my day listening to music. While I work, while I drive, while I work out, while I clean, cook (Huh, maybe not anymore).

What about you? My GF thought I was insane to even contemplate giving up taste.

 

[Saelune]

Taste. I love music, I love eating. Imagine all the things I could eat if taste didn't matter!? (To clarify, I enjoy the act of eating as much as the taste of the food)

 

[Qizx]

stakes

You've got me there! What would I do if a vampire attacks? (I kid I kid)
But in all reality I see where you're coming from. It really is a painful decision because I do truly love food as well.

Taste. I love music, I love eating. Imagine all the things I could eat if taste didn't matter!? (To clarify, I enjoy the act of eating as much as the taste of the food)

That's also another way I looked at it, if I didn't need to worry about flavour I could eat super healthy, wouldn't need to worry about money as much. There ARE benefits to not having to taste.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Music. I couldn't live life without the joy of food.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Food is sustenance. Life circumstances meant that I couldn't afford to be too finicky ... and frankly it's a cost that I can do without. IF everything tasted the same, I might be sad. But no where near as sad if I couldn't hear music. You can tell a lot about a person by their music choices. Food is a personal issue, but music communicates a social bond and what someone feels. What someone listens to, what instruments they like to play, how they move to music. All of it is important, all of it should be taken into consideration.

You might enjoy a lovely dish, but a lively song with friends and lovers is far more entertaining and it's a far more intimate act of sharing with others an experience.

That and I think fairly lowly of food and wine critics. I like a good drop or three, but as soon as someone says; "hints of an American oak barrel finish..." all that tells me is that they're a tosser.

 

[McElroy]

I'm not enthusiastic about either, but in the end food is just food. I've avoided talking about cooking shows well enough. Taste goes.

 

[Secondhand Revenant]

I guess I'd eat very healthily and economically if I gave up taste... I'd hate to do it though.

 

[MysticSlayer]

I might be a bit swayed at the moment by listening to music (for the curious, I'm listening through Avantasia's Ghostlights album), but I'd say taste. Without taste, I would see food as just being there for survival and may eat better. Without music, I'd lose significantly more of what I enjoy in life. Not only would I miss music itself, but I'd miss it in movies, games, TV, etc., and that would take so much of the enjoyment I get out of all entertainment.

I'm also reasonably certain the only reason I'm still considered sane is because of music. My body can survive without taste. My mind may not do so well without music.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Just to be clear, I would still able to hear right as in sounds?

Logicially I would have to give up music. I mean if the food taste bad then it could means there could be something wrong with it? Like imagine if I give up taste and I ate an out of date candy? I learn the hard way on never eating out of date flapjacks...

Granted I don't know those who aren't able to taste stuff deals with this (they check the dates carefully or get someone to cooked them properly?).

 

[Qizx]

Just to be clear, I would still able to hear right as in sounds?

Logicially I would have to give up music. I mean if the food taste bad then it could means there could be something wrong with it? Like imagine if I give up taste and I ate an out of date candy? I learn the hard way on never eating out of date flapjacks...

Granted I don't know those who aren't able to taste stuff deals with this (they check the dates carefully or get someone to cooked them properly?).

Yeah you could hear people talking perfectly, and guns firing etc... Anything other than music.

As for the candy thing, you probably wouldn't be eating candy at all if you couldn't task the sweetness! But yeah that is a drawback, you have to be careful with how and what you eat.

Music. I couldn't live life without the joy of food.

But could you live without the joy of music? With all the life it brings?

 

[DefunctTheory]

Music. I couldn't live life without the joy of food.

But could you live without the joy of music? With all the life it brings?

Better bacon than the Beat. I like music and all, but I love flavor more.

Besides, I'm tone deaf already.

 

[Rednog]

I'd give up music.
I honestly have zero passion for it. I never sit down and just listen to music. I didn't really grow up with music and I never got an interest for it. I understand why people like it and that it resonates for them, but for me it is absolutely meaningless.

 

[Jux]

Taste. Probably live healthier if I didn't have the urge to eat tasty yet unhealthy food. Wouldn't want to live without music though

 

[Vanilla ISIS]

I've "sacrificed" tasty food for healthy food a long time ago.
Not that I don't eat food that happens to taste good but that's not my main concern when eating.

Also, I just started to make a bit of money from playing music and hopefully I will be able to become a full time musician soon (which has always been a dream of mine).

I guess I could live without taste.

 

[Musette]

I'm a musician by trade, so there's no way I could give that up. As much as I'd hate to lose my taste, I've kinda already dedicated my life to music, I'd rather not have to totally restructure my life or give up my greatest passion just so I could enjoy a nice hot meal.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Taste. Can't live without my music.

That said Michael Hutchence, the former lead singer of INX, lost his sense of taste after being punched out and it drove him to the point of suicide. I'm guessing losing your sense of taste is really, really unpleasant.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Giving up taste would probably actually lead to me eating healthier and cheaper. Giving up music would take away a core part of my life. I play multiple instruments and listen to music many hours a day.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

That's easy, taste. It means I could eat all the healthy stuff and not worry about losing out on stuff I liked. Since it would all be the same.