Tart if it tastes good, sour if it tastes bad?
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Astringent to me is terrible. It makes we want to constantly spit.
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to solve the differing descriptions⌠maybe âastringentâ can be defined in the same way as Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewartâs method of how he defined pornography. He said "⌠I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it"
Here you just âknow it when you taste itâ.
Mike 
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I always remember Cowboys and Indians. Cowboys used bullets, they are rounded at the tip as are white oaks leaves. Red is pointy, like arrows. Cowboys are white, Indians red.
A white oak did this.
It was near Halloween, so we did a Wizard of Oz theme,
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Wow!
Good mnemonic, too.
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Saw another example of confusing sour with bitter today on a cooking show.
The presenter said, âwhen zesting a lemon, make sure you donât get the white pith. It tastes pretty sour.â
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That is a decent way to remember, but itâs not historically accurate! HOLLYWOOD cowboys were white.
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Funny, in many cases the Indians were white too 
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