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What Do London's Tube Stations Taste Like?
One man with synesthesia has mapped it out.
Today's postcard comes from London, where one man with synesthesia has mapped out what flavors he tastes at every single Tube station.
54-year-old James Wannerton has lexical-gustatory synesthesia, which means a word, spoken or written, triggers vivid sensations of taste, texture and even temperature. Since the age of 5, when Wannerton started taking the Underground to school, he noticed distinct taste associations with each station. As he got older, he started to keep track of them, compiling a list of each station name and their taste starting when he was 16. He would then visit each station to make sure the the flavor association was the same from a visit as from simply reading the name on a London Underground map.*