POLL: Would you rather give up Music or Taste?

[Qizx]

Hard to say. Giving up taste means I can finally start eating healthy. Giving up music means no more bad music polluting my ears whenever I walk into a CVS. I suppose the benefits of giving up taste outweigh the benefits of giving up music.

Haha, I think you're the first person to bring up a positive to losing music!

You'd better believe it. I stopped showing up for a workout class once solely because I couldn't stand all the pop music.

I can relate. I once told the clerk in a shoe store that I'd pay her 100 crowns (roughly $10) if she turned off the pop they were playing and put on some Beatles instead. She told me she couldn't, though.

That's the thing about music. If you say you hate a TV show, or a movie, or a book, people tell you to just stop reading/watching. But when it comes to music, they don't, because they understand that in our society you have to listen to music now and then whether you like it or not.

That's the same reason I stopped going to a bowling place with some of my friends. They would play Country music fairly frequently and my scores definitely dropped during those frames...

 

[hermes]

I eat enough junk food that my taste buds are in recession, and I have always eaten more because of the sustainability and to avoid the discomfort of hunger, anyways... My point is, I don't think I would miss taste quite so much.

 

[Jamash]

Anyone who would give up taste is not a cook. If you cook, you need to be able to taste. To learn from your mistakes. Also, after the food is done, it would seem like a waste if it was bland. Why bother with seasoning and such for cardboard?

I like music, but I could never give up tasting my food.

I love cooking, enjoy my food and really value my sense of taste, but if I was faced with this particular dilemma, I would have to go with giving up taste, since that's is something that can happen anyway, whereas losing the ability to hear music seems like a horrible mental disorder and will undoubtedly have knock on effects on your psyche and mental well being.

I don't see the question as taste vs. music, I see the question as a minor physical disability vs. (quite significant) brain damage and/or a mental disorder, so I would always err in favour of a healthy mind.

Besides, if one day I suddenly couldn't taste, that wouldn't somehow erase my culinary knowledge and cooking skill, so I would still be able to cook decent meals and healthy food, I just won't enjoy it as much.

 

[Schtimpy]

Taste. It's not even the most important part of how food "tastes" to me, which is texture. How a food actually "tastes" is a spectrum of different sensations, including things like smell, appearance, elasticity, density. Anyone here like soggy bread? 'Cause it tastes like bread. On the other hand, music lets me feel the emotions of people I've never met, and am not likely to meet.

So I've got a minor convenience (for me) on one side, and an emotional connection to the human race on the other? Yeah, I'm dropping taste.

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Off Topic: When I first saw this, the last "aste" in taste was cut off, and I read that as teeth. I'd still pick music first, but damn...that's a question.

Off Topic 2: The smart-ass in me wants to be all "But, judging by my dependence on jeans and bad t-shirts for my fashion sense, I clearly already have no taste."

Off Topic 2a: Could I listen to Nickelback, or is that off limits?

 

[Jadak]

Can I get rid of both?

I have no love of music so really wouldn't give a shit in most other comparisons. But, I would view giving up taste as a desirable option regardless.

Eating just the healthy stuff because it all tastes the same? No cravings for sugary bullshit? Sign me up. Food is delicious, but eating consistently and healthily is a chore. If I could settle for a lifetime supply of some health-conscious slop that would otherwise taste like shit, I'm in.

 

[Evil Moo]

As a game developer who has had to implement music systems occasionally, losing music could be very inconvenient in a way that losing taste would not be (at least until taste interfaces become a thing). I may not be the biggest music lover out there, but losing it would definitely be bad.

Losing taste on the other hand, as others have said, would likely encourage me to eat healthier and cheaper. While I do enjoy food, I think I could certainly live without taste.