Tumblr thread, one user says that archeologists identify human remains by taste. A second user points out that this is not true, bone is identified as not a normal rock by touching it to your tongue and seeing if it sticks. If it does then bone.
Third user shares a poem they wrote: mai nam is jane and wen i dig i fynde some roks both smol and big i put my tung upon the stone for science yes i lik the bone
4th user is an archeologist and is crying laughing with a bunch of other archeologists and they’re going to have shirts made with the poem.
This was a lot of my degree. We licked everything. Still do.
Mouthfeel is an incredible sense. Babies learn what the world is by pushing handfuls of it into their mouths. Texture, taste, angularity, porosity, density, degree of lithificaton… instantly.
*edit: we did not all lick things. There are two distinct schools of thought, and not a lot of fence sitters.
I would absolutely be on the lick things team. I use my mouth as a tool all the time.
This post sounds incredibly weird.
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