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May 28Liked by Jason Frowley PhD

haha my favourite bit was "goggle-eyed bumpkin"

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Feb 22Liked by Jason Frowley PhD

'But I’d never tasted water like it. It tasted like the inside of someone else’s mouth after they’d been sucking a potato.'

That really rings a bell. Water really tastes different everywhere. And sometimes you get a vivid impression of what water tastes like that has actually been drunk countless times.

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Easy enough. I just got my wife to suck on various root vegetables till we found the right one.

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Touché 😉

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Interesting that you picked out the very last sentence I wrote! I'd been mulling over how the water tasted for some time, and suddenly it came to me...

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One wonders how you could come up with this rather unusal description :)

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