Science shows cheese can make wine taste better

[JaumeGreen]

This was already known, but it's nice for science to confirm.

The Spannish expression "Darsela con queso" (lit: to give it to someone with cheese) was about the custom of giving cheese to buyers that wanted to taste a wine that the seller knew to be bad[0].

[0] ESP http://marianitu.com/2011/02/17/el-origen-de-la-expresion-qu...

[0*] or any of https://www.google.es/search?q=darsela+con+queso

[hannob]

It's an interesting phenomena. On a regular basis stories about the various problems of scientific quality make it to HN, e.g. recently this one [1].

On the other hand every now and then a study that is almost certainly completely bogus and of such low quality that it basically says nothing at all also is very popular.

Add to that the regular comments of the form "maybe this study isn't that good, but my personal anecdotes show ..."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713249

[stupidcar]

What an absolutely horrible website. Immediately tries to register to send you desktop notifications and covers the article content in a popover to try to harvest your email address.

[zeroer]

Not for me. Noscript and uBlock: making the internet nicer, one webpage at a time.

[tinco]

So.. what about drinking wine with a placebo? Why not include a control test with for example a buttered toast.

[FeepingCreature]

I would like to anecdotally confirm this.

[jamisteven]

My mouth says cheese makes EVERYTHING taste better. Take that, science.

[yawz]

I love wine, cheese and science... not in any particular order.

[dacracot]

I didn't need science to know this is true.

[eveningcoffee]

Maybe you are just an outlier?

[dekhn]

on the contrary, wine makes cheese taste better.

[InYan]

I'm ready to be a tester. Where to find a job offer??

[sctb]

Please don't post like this on Hacker News.

[sgift]

> The study was conducted at the Center for Taste and Feeding Behavior in France with frequent wine and cheese consumers from the city of Dijon.

Is it?

[elcct]

I'd prefer something that tastes good out of the box, like orange juice

[eveningcoffee]

Out of the box you say? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/100-percent-orange-...