It’s something I vividly remember being taught in primary school – the tongue has areas which can only taste sweet, savoury, etc. and they showed us a diagram of where each area was on the tongue. It was the most easily disprovable idea and we all knew it made no sense…and lo and behold it turned out to be total nonsense. How did this idea ever make its way into curriculums and textbooks and did it ever have the backing of the science community? (Also, feel free to share the dumbest thing you were ever taught in school for comparison!)
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it made it because it’s true. some books may have exaggerated it to teach that you can ONLY taste 1 flavor per zone, but saying you can taste every flavor equally in every zone (as is often done in backlash against this teaching) is just as wrong. the tongue has zones that are more sensitive to specific flavors
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