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Can music make food taste better?
- subpar 2y agoI'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.
- b112 2y agoHey 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 2y agoThe 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.
- jonny_eh 2y agowow, 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-beat-and-cut-the-cheese-for-science/ https://tinkercast.com/podcasts/wow-in-the-world/drop-that-b...
- jgalt212 2y agoPlease 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.
- hooverd 2y agoWHAT‽ I can't taste my food over the music in here!
- et-al 2y agoI'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 2y agoI don't think you're wrong. https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/bay-area-restaurants-sensory-nightmare-18459785.php https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/bay-area-restaurants-sen...
- b112 2y agoMost of my restaurant trips are to enjoy a meal with friends or family, and talk. I wonder the logic.
- SoftTalker 2y agoAlso 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 2y agoit turns out that rising real estate costs hit everybody and now everyone is trying to optimize every last dollar to make rent.
- bagels 2y agoEncourages me to get out and not come back. I don't return to noisy places.
- AdmiralAsshat 2y agoRelated: 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-has-been-existentially-aged-by-being-forced-to-listen-to-the-games-soundtrack-on-loop/ https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/this-nier-automata-wine-ha...
- animanoir 2y agoYes.
- tqi 2y agoInteresting, this effect sounds very similar to how the words used to describe wine cause you to taste those notes.
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- cheeze 2y agoFat 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 2y agoFrom 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 2y agoThat 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.
- userbinator 2y agoOf course, not everyone likes the same music. Listening to music in my car means I don't have to annoy everyone else who doesn't like it.
- coldtea 2y agoBack in the day music wasn't an isolationist experience, nor socializing was shunned for fear of breaking off one's echo bubble and, oh the humanity!, having to listen outside one's playlist
- harrylove 2y agoOn a related note (la), if this floats your ice cream, you might be interested in Ben Houge's Food Opera sound/dining experiments (http://www.audiogustatory.com/ http://www.audiogustatory.com/).
- miika 2y agoI took part in a test where they gave me three drinks which I tasted while listening to three different songs. In the end they told me all drinks were the same and I was very surprised! Pop music made it taste sweeter.