Taste Flashcards

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Taste

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A food tastes good or tastes bad.

If you wanna to be a little more extreme in your description, you can say that a food tastes divine/heavenly (for an extremely good taste) or tastes gross/disgusting (for an extremely bad taste).

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Taste gross/disgusting

Taste divine/heavenly

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For an extremely bad taste

For an extremely good taste

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It tastes funny

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That means it taste unusual, with a negative connotation.

This milk taste funny - it might be past its expiration date.

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Something tastes like something else

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I had frog’s leges once - they tasted like chicken.

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Flavor

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Has a nutty, fruity, cheesy, minty, or salty flavor

This wine has a fruity taste / fruity flavor.

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Describing foods by the sensation they cause in your mouth

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Bitter flavor
Sour taste
Sweet taste

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Savor the taste

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When you enjoy the taste of something, and want to keep it in your mouth for a long time, we say you savor the taste.

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Strong flavor

Rich flavor

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The strong flavor of garlic

The rich flavor of chocolate

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Mild flavor

Subtle flavor

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Low level of flavor - positive connotation

This cheese has a nice, mild flavor.
The subtle flavor of ginger adds a nice touch to this marinade.

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Bland taste

Bland flavor

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A way to describe food with little flavor, with a negative connotation.

These crackers have such a bland flavor that it feel like I’m snacking on cardboard.

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An acquired taste

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There are some foods that people usually don’t enjoy the first time they try them but with time, people learn to like the flavor. A food like this can be described as an acquired taste.

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