>>>> And you have the water truck on stand-by for the night, right? >:)
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>>>>Nah...but I DO keep a few bottles of beer beside me, just in case! ;)
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>>>I presume it's a cold case (*) where you keep it. Shake it fine, and you can douse a fire from quite a distance.
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>>>The last time we did that sort of fire maintenance when we had a lamb on a spit - but we aimed at the lamb, so its skin wouldn't crack. Don't know whether that helps, but the perceived improvement in taste was ... what's the taste equivalent of "audible"?
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>>Savourous (savorous US)? Appreciable? Tangible? Perceptible
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>Tangible would be the word, except that it's the same as palpable. So let's stay with the general term 'perceptible'.

Now then, officially there are only 4 "tastes": salt, sweet, sour and bitter. 5 if you include something in a class of its own: MSG.

These are tastes that can be perceived by the tongue only. When you pop food in your mouth an dthe heat gets at it its smell travels up through your olfactory sinues and the two combined give you a "flavour". This is why when you have a cold your food "tastes" bland - exactly because you're only tasting it. We shouldn't really talk about *tasting* food - more *savouring* it. Hence why I used teh word "savorous" as in "perceived as a savour".

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>In most of the languages there's a shortage of words to describe smells and tastes. I think it's because these senses are hard to share - you have to share a small space or some food with someone to get them to sense the same thing you do, while sounds and images travel at a much higher speed and cover larger distances, so many people can hear and see the same at the same time.
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>The well known orphan in this dictionary is the word for hot food (also means high temperature in English), which is sharp (scharf) in German, angry (ljuto) in Serbian, strong (erős) in Hungarian, pinching (picante) in Spanish (someone correct me on this one) etc etc. We discussed this before, IIRC (so you don't have to type another "deja vu" message :).