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Why dessert may taste sweeter on a round plate

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Square plates are a culinary disaster for desserts. Because the human brain bizarrely associates round, curved shapes with sweetness and sharp angles with savory bitterness, serving cheesecake on a square tile literally makes it taste worse. You are biologically incapable of judging flavor without letting geometry interfere.

Why dessert may taste sweeter on a round plate
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