A woman can "taste words" due to a neurological condition - and says her boyfriend's name tastes like "paper".
Sarah Gann, 30, grew up associating words with certain tastes - but assumed everyone else did too.
It turned out she has synesthesia, a neurological condition where the stimulation of one sense - in Sarah's case, sound leads to the stimulation of another - taste.
The mum-of-two doesn't associate a taste with every single word, but does taste lots of common ones.
Sarah says the word 'teacher' tastes like purple tropical Skittles, and the word 'think' tastes like chocolate milk.
'Church' tastes like powdered donuts and 'ball' tastes like nacho cheese.
Her own name doesn't have a flavour, but her partner Jakob Clayton, 27, tastes like paper, she says.
Sarah Gann, 30, grew up associating words with certain tastes - but assumed everyone else did too.
It turned out she has synesthesia, a neurological condition where the stimulation of one sense - in Sarah's case, sound leads to the stimulation of another - taste.
The mum-of-two doesn't associate a taste with every single word, but does taste lots of common ones.
Sarah says the word 'teacher' tastes like purple tropical Skittles, and the word 'think' tastes like chocolate milk.
'Church' tastes like powdered donuts and 'ball' tastes like nacho cheese.
Her own name doesn't have a flavour, but her partner Jakob Clayton, 27, tastes like paper, she says.
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00:00Let's talk about some more words that I can taste.
00:03The phrase grow up tastes like nerd ropes.
00:07The words grow and up by themselves
00:08do not put together a nerd rope.
00:11The word school tastes like butterscotch.
00:13This can be candies, desserts, pudding,
00:17anything butterscotch.
00:18The word bike tastes like nutty buddies.
00:21Bicycle does not, it tastes like nothing.
00:23And also it's not just any chocolate
00:25and peanut butter dessert, it's just this one,
00:27it's the texture.
00:29The word English tastes like salt.
00:32And the word game tastes like this kind of nacho cheese.
00:36Maybe it's because of the concession stand, I don't know.
00:39It's words I can taste part two, let's go.
00:41Blonde is pudding.
00:43Any and all pudding is blonde.
00:46Both concrete and ash, when I hear these words,
00:48I think of milk dipped in cookies.
00:51I guess some of these are kind of a texture thing for me,
00:53so anytime I hear these words,
00:54I just think of that soggy, milky cookie, I don't know.
00:59Church is powdered donuts, white powdered donuts always.
01:02Pink is icing.
01:04No specific type of icing, just when I hear the word pink,
01:06I immediately imagine tasting icing.
01:10The word think is chocolate milk.
01:11So for my first video, I said clock was white milk.
01:13I don't taste chocolate milk at all with clock.
01:16Same thing with think.
01:17It is very specifically chocolate milk,
01:19not white milk at all.
01:20And the word harsh is a Twix candy bar.
01:23When I'm eating these foods,
01:24I don't necessarily think of the words,
01:26it's hearing the words that makes me think of the food,
01:29if that makes sense.
01:30So let me know what words you can taste.
01:32It's words I can taste, part three.
01:34The word trouble tastes like a cherry airhead, only cherry.
01:38The word mask tastes like candy corn.
01:41And I don't know,
01:41this is probably some sort of like Halloween thing
01:43in my brain, but even talking about face masks for COVID,
01:47I've always just tasted candy corn when I hear mask.
01:50The word office tastes like water, I don't know.
01:55The word teacher is wild berry Skittles, only wild berry.
02:01And the word capable is applesauce.
02:05Enjoy this list of some more words that I can taste.
02:08Usually rhyming words don't really do much for me,
02:11but words like almanac, maniac, animaniacs,
02:16they all taste like KitKat to me.
02:18It's the texture thing,
02:19something about the thin wafer and the thin chocolate
02:21is just like ack, yak, I don't know.
02:26The word please, maraschino cherry juice.
02:29Not necessarily the cherries, just the juice.
02:32Lots of things have a cherry type flavor to me,
02:35I don't know.
02:36The word done is pencil lead.
02:38I've obviously never chewed on pencil lead,
02:40but when I say the word done,
02:41I just something about the texture
02:43and the color of the pencil lead,
02:45just I kind of taste it when I say done.
02:50The word maximum or max, dry cloth.
02:57The word pants, cherry icy, specifically cherry
03:01and the texture of the icy.
03:04And the word play, bananas.
03:09Okay, so I'm gonna try to explain what I mean
03:11when I say I can taste names or taste words.
03:13So basically there's something called synesthesia
03:15and it's when you experience one sense through another.
03:19So I think one of the most common forms
03:21is when people hear a song or a certain type of music
03:24and it is a color to them.
03:26So maybe this type of music is green,
03:28this particular song is pink, things like that.
03:31Or they see a shape and they're like,
03:33triangles are always red, circles are always blue,
03:35whatever the case may be.
03:37I don't really experience any of that,
03:38I just have one of the more rare forms
03:40where I just taste words.
03:43I do not taste every word of the English language,
03:45but the words that I do taste are always the same.
03:47For instance, blue is always chocolate,
03:50school is always butterscotch,
03:53whatever the word may be.
03:55I don't taste it like,
03:58actually get the real taste of butterscotch in my mouth,
04:01but I just imagine if I were to take a bite out of school,
04:03that's what it would taste like, sounds so weird.