“Umami” (savory taste) sometimes sounds like “your mommy.” A joke was posted on Reddit—Dad Jokes on December 28, 2017:
Q: Why does your mom taste like a savory?
A: Because she’s umami.
Wikipedia: Umami
Umami (/uˈmɑːmi/), or savory taste, is one of the five basic tastes (together with sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and saltiness). It has been described as brothy or meaty.
People taste umami through taste receptors that typically respond to glutamate. Glutamate is widely present in meat broths and fermented products, and commonly added to some foods in the form of monosodium glutamate (MSG). Since umami has its own receptors rather than arising out of a combination of the traditionally recognized taste receptors, scientists now consider umami to be a distinct taste.
Twitter
Ryne Douglas Pearson
@rynedp
#FF The lovely @RachelintheOC She’s not bitter. Not sweet. She’s umami. Not ‘you mommy’, ‘umami’. Look it up.
3:42 PM - 12 Aug 2011
Twitter
WolfpackSokly
@Soklyyy
OHHHH GURL, SHE IS UMAMI
12:44 PM - 23 Sep 2013
Twitter
Michael
@h8_MK
my girl not sweet…she’s umami
6:03 PM - 26 Mar 2017
Reddit—Dad Jokes
Why does your mom taste like a savory? (self.dadjokes)
submitted December 28, 2017 by Fasefase
Because she’s umami.
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