Palatable describes food that tastes good and is pleasant to eat. It can also describe ideas or plans that people find acceptable.
From 'palate', the roof of the mouth and the sense of taste, plus the suffix '-able', meaning 'able to be'. It originally referred to something that your sense of taste can accept.
When you call an idea 'palatable', you're secretly talking as if your mind has a tongue. The word reminds us that our brains ‘taste’ ideas the way our mouths taste food—some go down easily, some don’t.
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