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[wayner123]

Originally Posted by RatherUneek

Great information, but I am still looking for something. I have heard the term "barnyard" used to describe flavor and have always wondered what exactly barnyard would taste like. I didn't see it on any of the flavor wheels. Can someone please tell me where they would put it on the wheel or what flavors on the wheel that it may be close to. Thanks!

I guess it would fall under earthy.

But as with "barnyard" and many other flavors, you won't know what they are until you have thoroughly experienced them. I did a taste test of sorts a while back and it had some very interesting results to what someone tastes in a cigar and how those flavors must have the "mental links" in order to pick them out.

Also note that Dana Small (a taste/flavor scientist) recorded this:

Finally, Small and her colleagues present strong evidence that the final common pathways of taste and smell go to the non-verbal right brain, which has implications for our ability to report thinking processes related to taste and smell; one of the reasons Titchener - and Wundt before him - only reported four tastes was probably that they had difficulty getting people to talk about taste and smell.

So there might be some flavors that you can't describe because of this.