The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.
I like really sharp flavors, and I like contrasts. Something sweet and sour at the same time is a big win.
Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.
I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.
Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.
I don't see the point in being bitter.
Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn't amount to anything.
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.