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Blue Flag
Frying bacon
Centaury
Coffee roasting
Northern Prickly-ash
Pilocarpine
Cheese so old it's almost turned back to cream again
Ginger
Chewing gum.
What do all these things have in common?
Well, they're all sialogogues, a rather horrid word that means - can you guess? - things that make the mouth water.
Why not do a bit of research into the phenomenon?
Bon appetit!
Word To Use Today: sialogogue. This word comes from the Greek sialon, which means saliva.
Peaches, fresh peaches. I forgot peaches...
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