Miracle Fruit makes Tequila taste like lemonade

1 Comment 8/2/2008

Written by Jack

One of the more interesting events to skitter across the Eventbrite radar screen in a few days is FlavorTripping. In their own words: “Flavor Tripping is an ongoing series of Bacchanalian food tasting smackdowns that occur about once a month, beginning in February ‘08 in NYC and SF. Our events are smallish affairs held in an undisclosed location […] The first series of tastings center on miracle fruit — a cranberry-sized West African berry that that numbs your sour and bitter tastebuds for a couple of hours after eating it. That means that everything that used to taste sour now tastes sweet. Fo’ reals. It’s like a candy Willy Wonka would have invented - after eating one stout beers taste like chocolate milkshakes, grapefruits taste like pixie sticks, cheeses taste like frosting, it will make even the crappiest tequila taste like lemonade.” Right on.