A contrasting flavor or taste that follows another flavor, or an aesthetic preference that opposes mainstream taste.
From counter- + taste. Taste comes from Old French taster. This term blends the literal meaning (contrasting flavors) with the figurative meaning (aesthetic preference), emerging in culinary and art criticism.
Cilantro is the ultimate countertaste—it either tastes fresh and amazing or like soap, and people with the soap genes literally taste something completely different than other people due to a genetic variation!
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