Tasting media.

[prillalar]

I like to multi-task when I'm eating alone. I read or watch something. And I've developed a couple of odd associations because of that.

I recently watched Fafner in the Azure (a pretty standard post-apolcalyptic teenagers & mechas anime that I picked up just for Kiyasu Kohei, and so worth it just for that -- Soushi is his sexiest character voice ever). I would normally watch an episode while eating my breakfast, which was usually waffles.

Then one evening, I decided to take in a few more episodes. I began to watch. And then I started tasting syrup, even though I wasn't anywhere near any waffles. Even now, just thinking about the show makes me remember the taste of syrup.

I have a similar connection with the Books of Magic and HP Sauce.

Does this happen to anyone else?

Comments

[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

I have the same habits -- when I eat lunch alone at home, if I'm not at the computer I'll turn the TV on (ESPN or Food Network, usually), and when I eat lunch at work I need something to read (magazines or newspaper, usually -- right now it's mostly Time, at a previous bookstore job it was Publisher's Weekly, at the big media chain it was usually Sports Illustrated).

Not sure if I have any specific associations like that, though.