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Science shows cheese can make wine taste better
- tinco 10y agoSo.. what about drinking wine with a placebo? Why not include a control test with for example a buttered toast.
- JaumeGreen 10y agoThis was already known, but it's nice for science to confirm. The Spannish expression "Darsela con queso" (lit: to give it to someone with cheese) was about the custom of giving cheese to buyers that wanted to taste a wine that the seller knew to be bad[0]. [0] ESP http://marianitu.com/2011/02/17/el-origen-de-la-expresion-que-no-te-la-den-con-queso/ http://marianitu.com/2011/02/17/el-origen-de-la-expresion-qu... [0*] or any of https://www.google.es/search?q=darsela+con+queso https://www.google.es/search?q=darsela+con+queso
- elcct 10y agoI'd prefer something that tastes good out of the box, like orange juice
- eveningcoffee 10y agoOut of the box you say? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/100-percent-orange-juice-artificial_n_913395.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/100-percent-orange-...
- InYan 10y agoI'm ready to be a tester. Where to find a job offer??
- gregman1 10y agoFACEPALM. This is so american, I just can't even
- sgift 10y ago> The study was conducted at the Center for Taste and Feeding Behavior in France with frequent wine and cheese consumers from the city of Dijon. Is it?
- gregman1 10y agoMain street of Tbilisi (capital of Georgia) is named by George W. Bush. I'm not sure if he is Georgian or was just born there? That study was made for american market. Only. No sane European would ever 'pair' wine with cheese for extra taste. We use it for eliminating taste of previous wine during wine tastings.
- seszett 10y ago> No sane European would ever 'pair' wine with cheese for extra taste. We use it for eliminating taste of previous wine during wine tastings. No, you're wrong, (red) wine and cheese are paired all the time, and eliminating taste is done with bread if at all. I'm a sane Frenchman, by the way, and an important street of my city is named after President Hoover. Not sure if this has anything to do with the wine and cheese however.
- blablablame 10y agoPortuguese here, red wine + some cheeses is also common here. Not very strong, smelly cheeses, but your typical gouda's and the like (not sure if gouda as I don't remember the english names for the cheeses we use here)
- nommm-nommm 10y agoYes, it's Gouda in English as well. It's named after a city in the Netherlands.
- takingflac 10y agoNice thing about cheeses being named after cities/regions they were originally made in is that different languages don't use different names. Bad part is that you gain no information about the cheese itself from the name when this is done.
- FeepingCreature 10y agoI would like to anecdotally confirm this.
- stupidcar 10y agoWhat an absolutely horrible website. Immediately tries to register to send you desktop notifications and covers the article content in a popover to try to harvest your email address.
- hannob 10y agoIt's an interesting phenomena. On a regular basis stories about the various problems of scientific quality make it to HN, e.g. recently this one [1]. On the other hand every now and then a study that is almost certainly completely bogus and of such low quality that it basically says nothing at all also is very popular. Add to that the regular comments of the form "maybe this study isn't that good, but my personal anecdotes show ..." [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713249
- dacracot 10y agoI didn't need science to know this is true.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoMaybe you are just an outlier?
- dekhn 10y agoon the contrary, wine makes cheese taste better.
- yawz 10y agoI love wine, cheese and science... not in any particular order.
- jamisteven 10y agoMy mouth says cheese makes EVERYTHING taste better. Take that, science.