$40 worth of Miracle fruit berries
There was an article in the NY Times this week about the "Miracle Fruit", a west African cranberry with psychotripic effects that make everything taste sweet!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28flavor.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
"Albert Yuen, drizzled Tabasco sauce onto her tongue. She swallowed and considered the flavor: “Doughnut glaze, hot doughnut glaze!” . . .
limes were candied, vinegar resembled apple juice, goat cheese tasted like cheesecake on the tongue and goat cheese on the throat."
They are not cheap ($2 per berry), but flavor tripping has the promise to be far more than a flash in the pan.
Miracle Fruit "numbs your sour and bitter tastebuds for a couple of hours after eating it. That means that everything that used to taste sour now tastes sweet . . .
after eating one stout beers taste like chocolate milkshakes, grapefruits taste like pixie sticks, cheeses taste like frosting, it will make even the crappiest tequila taste like lemonade "
Miracle fruit is expensive and hard to find, we got ours from Thomas Vu Enterprises at http://www.miraclefruittab.com/ forty bucks for a handful of berries.