Why does mint taste cold?

This is why you should listen to Quirks & Quarks because you can learn the answers to riveting scientific queries of the day, like this one. 

The sensation of mint as cold has long fascinated me, but I have never known why mint makes my mouth chilly. Now the answer is here. Apparently mint, like Tabasco sauce, stimulates your taste buds with a sensation like pain. It's not technically a taste, but rather a feeling of pain! 

Because your taste buds have been primed by this painful mint, anything cold that you eat afterward with seem colder. Interestingly enough, anything hot that you eat afterward will seem hotter. 

Mint also increases your salivation and washes away thick protective saliva from your taste buds, so more of the cold or hot thing hits your naked, shivering taste buds.

Dead people, demons and other fun stuff, Tuesdays at 9 PM

Reaper is about a 21-year-old guy whose parents sold his soul to the Devil, so he has to be a bounty hunter for errant souls. Reviews say it has witty banter and comedy. I'll bite, but I'm damn well spittin' it out if it don't taste no good.

Is "undead" a legit TV subgenre now?!

Dead people, demons and other fun stuff, Tuesdays at 9 PM

Reaper is about a 21-year-old guy whose parents sold his soul to the Devil, so he has to be a bounty hunter for errant souls. Reviews say it has witty banter and comedy. I'll bite, but I'm damn well spittin' it out if it don't taste no good.

Is "undead" a legit TV subgenre now?!

Just like a Real Artist [TM]!

I got some new paintbrushes today. I will NOT be storing these bristles down. Anyway, I got out my supplies...

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Then I shaved some pastels with my craft knife onto my technologically advanced palette:

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Then I made a mess all over Will's face, putting some brown around his nose and on his philtrum and, most significantly, a thin layer of purple shadows [see unmixed blue + red above] under his eyes. Here's a harshly lit shot that shows the additions. I am just now exploiting his darkened eyes in a formal shoot.

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I'm older than you think.

One hundred years older...

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