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Question
Collect a few food items having different kinds of tastes. Play a game with your friends as Jhumpa and Jhoolan did. Tell your friend to taste the food and ask -
One at a time put some things to eat in other parts of your mouth - under the tongue, on the lips, on the roof of the mouth. Did you get any taste there?
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Solution
No, I could not get a taste there.
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