Let’s take a closer look at that tongue. Open wide and say AHHH…. Do you remember learning about the tastebuds? You might have been taught different sections of your tongue correlate with different tastes. For example, the tip of your tongue has the sweet tastebuds, while the back of the tongue hosts the bitter. This whole idea comes from the 1901 paper, “Psychophysics on the Sense of Taste”…. Where a Harvard psychologist suggested each part of the tongue can sense exactly one basic taste. Thus, the Taste Map was born! This is thought to be the reason for all those differently-shaped wine glasses; each one specifically designed to stimulate a particular part of your tongue depending on the type of wine. But in 1974, scientist Viriginia Collings found that all tastes can be detected on the tongue anywhere there are taste receptors. By the way, you may have heard that the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body, but that’s a myth as well! No matter which way you define strength, the quadriceps, the jaw, and the heart outmuscle the tongue every time. Sorry if that’s hard to swallow. From Washington Irving – “a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.”