repetition= a short-crusted chicken pie with peas and carrots and gravy

Thank you for your word!

surrender = a delicate, smooth green vegetable soup, tasting vaguely like pea shoots, spinach, watercress, etc.

thank you Romilly

challenge = a light amber-coloured jelly sweet with visible bite marks in it
I can’t describe the flavour – I haven’t eaten anything quite like it – part sweet, part savoury

bird = a chicken taste, but with an undercurrent of tomato juice

thank you, Pinkie

like most multi-syllable words, is a mish-mash of different tastes, in this case none of them particularly strong or outstanding. Breaking the word into syllables gives it stronger flavours per syllable, but not a real flavour read or spoken as a word itself.

Verrily, on the other hand, tastes, sweet and warm, like hot red jello poured over a small jelly-roll

very= warm red jello, stirred around in a bowl

veracity= nothing, really – another mish-mash!

moustache= a mixture of a Marcella-type tomato sauce with mustard and a bit of plaster at the end

complication= it’s a peach-coloured word, tasting a little like pancake batter with a smell like a combination of calamine lotion and pressed-powder makeup

Complicated! Thank you dear Flutter, for your word!

metrosexual= like most multisyllabic words, this one gets broken down into at least two words
metro= bread soaked in fake maple syrup
sexual= a coral-coloured word, not sweet, but not savoury either… it has a flavour I have not yet tasted, something in the middle of dark-meat chicken and bottled French salad dressing, and undertones of something else I can’t quite identify…persimmon? celery? I will have to walk away from it and then surprise myself by looking at the word all at once – SEXUAL! – and see what happens.

scientology= like ‘science’ and the suffix ‘ology’
science= sharp metallic spears, like small manicure scissors, but with more shine (that is, if one were to taste the scissors)
ology= (like apology) red jam seeping into white bread, like the bread has been spread with the jam a few hours prior

Thank you for your tasties, Tartsie!

bicycle= chopped-up pieces of very cold orange popsicle

juxtapose is one of those compound tastes
juxt= cold elbow macaroni shape in tomato juice
a= the inside of a french-fry
pose= a dark red round sugar-coated fruit pastille, not too soft, tasting somewhere between raspberry and blackcurrant

Usually two phonetic sounds are not the same, i.e. cane, feign, gain, main, plain and rain all have completely different tastes.

There are some words that I know have a ‘taste’, although it is based on an impression of what I think the thing would taste like, or a smell. E.g.: the word ‘behaviour’ tastes like wet hair with a type of conditioner on it, and I certainly haven’t eaten that- it is a smell that is sensed like a taste.

Thanks GG!

oblong= a block of pale beige/grey almost flavourless gum

Thank you, joey!

belief= not one of my favourite tastes…it is like tinned corned beef between white bread slices

believe= even worse…spam between white bread slices

Leo= warm, thin, wilted slices of cucumber in a creamy mayonnaise-type dressing

leonine= like ‘leo’ and ‘nine’ squished together
nine= a dark-coloured (black or red so dark it looks black) round-edged ice cube with undertones of freezie and flecks of chewed-up bread

Different, yet similar!

No, I don’t usually associate music with colours.

Thank you, renewalsh!

awash= like most ‘w’ words, it is pink, but it has blue and green undertones. Its flavour is slightly unsweet bubblegummy wet laundry.

Thank you for your word!

thinking up all kinds of pithy responses to the question, responses that Rat dares not answer.

The answer will probably be kind of funny anyway, even in its straight-faced way:

sex= a dark coral coloured word, mixed up in flavour so that it isn’t one thing over another (sigh).
It has overtones and the texture of dark meat, like goose, but unidentifiable. It has undertones of a creamy salad dressing, like French, but creamier and unidentifiable. It also has a tiny bit of celery and cotton candy.

Thank you Renewalsh, for your word!

bonus:
naughty= a round nut flavour, part walnut, part hazelnut, but round, and suspended in melted ice-cream

minor= a lump of dark ice

major= a rotini in tomato sauce

thanks!

Musical soup?