File under: Food & Drink, Miscellaneous

Pre-taste?

What’s the name for the sensation when the back of your lower jaw prickles with taste and saliva, after you walk past someone eating vinegary chips from a bag? Or when you bring a salt and vinegar or pickled onion flavour crisp close to your mouth, but before it actually touches your tongue?

I’m currently siding with “anticipatory gush”, though it sounds awfully rude out of context.