I have noticed recently that my tongue is strangely non-absorbent. Whenever the Boy Wonder and I eat something highly coloured, his tongue seems to change colour instantly whereas mine only ever musters up a minimal colour change at best. I had previously assumed that this was down to my tongue piercing, for vague reasons involving the potential black hole effect of the piercing itself, but since removing it almost a year ago I'm coming to realise that this can no longer be considered a viable explanation. For some reason, the Boy Wonder's chameleon-like tongue really makes me jealous (possibly because I find it surprisingly hilarious when his tongue changes colour) so I resolved to find out if this was a common problem. A quick bit of Googling revealed the following:
1. No, people are not flooding the internet with similar queries
2. There are some weird things going on in people's mouths including a condition called 'hairy tongue' (a defective desquamation of the filiform papillae, wouldn't you just know it).
3. Looking at photos of those weird things will make you nauseous almost without exception
4. References to 'Non-absorbent tongue' seem to exist only in the context of porn, training shoes and flooring.
So my thirst for knowledge remains unquenched and my annoyingly non-absorbent tongue seems destined to remain tongue coloured for the time being.
