I'd wander around the pantry looking for things that might taste good with meat and throw them in the blender, hoping for the best.

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It was used to disguise the taste of rancid meat.

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Ketchup ignites the palate as one of the few foods to stimulate all five sensations inside the mouth: salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami, the latter of which gives body to food and is the savory taste found in cured meat and MSG.

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He explained that later in the year when it is in season, he will return to pick the yellow gorse flowers (which have a distinct coconut taste) to use in meat marinades and Thai curries, as well as burdock root, which is popular in Japanese cooking and can be used for vegetable soups or mixed with dandelion to make a root beer-like soft drink.

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Young people with whom I chatted in Ulsan believe that whale meat is an older person's dish, a taste forged in the harsh after-flames of World War II.

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One application Sotzing has been working on is meat packaging with a built-in tongue that can taste the first signs of spoilage and activate a color change as a warning.

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No one would guess that they had not even buried the unlucky blacksmith, whose brain was eventually picked over by crows, and to whose carcass the tiger would return time and time again, until he had learned something about the taste of man, about the freshness of human meat, which was different now, in snow, than it had been in the heat of summer.

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But it continues to invest in developing the taste for its own brands of palm oil, condensed milk, tinned meat and canned fish in a hinterland market that has often been a dumping ground for leftovers from elsewhere.

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