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• hobovision@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’ve got sensors for acidity and alkalinity, but water is almost never truly neutral, so for sure you can taste that. You can also taste/smell a bunch of other stuff in water, like salt, other minerals, or chemicals like chlorine.

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• other_cat@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tangent, but I remember when I was a kid I would try to explain people that I could “smell” the “air coonditioned air” and everyone was like “what? No you can’t, it’s just air. It doesn’t smell like anything.”

  I never did figure out what the smell was. I’m guessing it was some kind of chemical; it wasn’t a bad smell, though. It smelled like ice cubes (which I know, doesn’t make a lot of sense either.)

  Anyway, all this to say that a lot of people have very strong senses. (And the other comments about water not being neutral are correct as well!)

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  • PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ice cubes do have some smell, now that you mention it. Humans have an amazing ability to smell moisture, which we evolved for being able to find water sources. So your experience with AC could relate to how AC affects the humidity in the air perhaps.

    And in context of this thread, smell is one of the largest factors for our experience of flavor. Without a sense of smell, most foods would taste relatively bland.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No

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• bbboi@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I doubt you’re drinking pure water. You’re almost definitely tasting all the minerals and junk in the water rather than the water itself.

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