Bittersweet For Sourpuss

Remember when each of the tastes bitter, sweet, sour, salty and umani, had their own special place on your tongue? When you could lick and flick a tongue tip to savor one by one, each titillating and tantalizing tidbit, and avoid the bitter, sour and salty, in the hors d'oeuvre samples and starters? But turns out all the taste buds of different types are a mishmash, spread all over the palette like mixed berry jam jelly on toast. So blitz the blender, pulse, pulse, pulse the mush to liquefy, to make your next bender meld, to an homogeneous amorphous blend, a potpourri punch fit for a sourpuss.