I’ve heard that, too. They’re also dulled by a lifetime of smoking, getting your tongue burnt on hot food, or whatever other trauma your tongue goes through during a lifetime.
I think what’s really true is that people taste things in very different ways for a lot of different reasons. “Go-Gurt tastes like formaldehyde, what’s wrong with kids,” is kind of like saying “cilantro tastes like soap, how can anyone eat Mexican food?” or “coffee and brussels sprouts are horribly bitter, how can anybody eat them”?
