Part of tasting our food is smell, so if our sinuses are stuffed up or impaired food tastes flat. I think it's why people often describe bad food as tasting like some horrible bodily excretion or a substance they've never actually eaten, because likely they've smelled it and the two senses are inexorably entwined.
Ah, but it is a blissful feeling, isn't it? Your delight is almost palpable. I feel like I should offer you a candy cigarette to celebrate. You're new here and perhaps don't know this, but that's sort of my thing around here-- offering young ladies a candy smoke when they seem a bit--ah--
enthused.
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