I love my taste buds! What would you do if you couldn't taste the food you were eating? Good thing we have so many taste buds in our mouth! 
That would be pretty awful b/c I love to taste the food I eat
me too!  Food would also taste quite differently if we didn't have our sense of smell.  The two sense work together to give foods the 'taste' we have come to know and love!
it would be quite strange.  Unless maybe you grew up that way and than you wouldn't know any different.  It would be a boring exsistense though
calyculi) and other areas including the upper surface of the tongue and the epiglottis. The gustatory cortex is responsible for the perception of taste.
The tongue is covered with thousands of small bumps called papillae, which are visible to the naked eye. Within each papilla are hundreds of taste buds. The exception to this is the filiform papillae that do not contain taste buds. There are between 2000 and 5000 taste buds that are located on the back and front of the tongue. Others are located on the roof, sides
Would Have Thought It?" who travel to Europe to learn good taste, Clarence notes this mentality saying "Don't you know I like some of our California wines quite as well as the imported, if not better? I suppose I ought to be ashamed to admit it, thus showing my taste is not cultivated...I think sooner or later our wines will be better liked, better appreciated." Hubert responds: "I think so too, but for the present it is the fashion to cry down our native