stackyFACTSIf you hand someone a lemon-flavored beverage dyed bright red, they will swear on their life it tastes like sweet cherry. Color-flavor translation highlights how aggressively your visual expectations bully your actual tastebuds, entirely overriding physical reality with whatever brightly colored lie your eyes just told your tongue.
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