If dark matter were food, what would it taste like?

Why doesn't everyone ask original questions like this? My best guess is that it would taste like HAL9000 or that tingly sparkly spacedust that melts on your tongue and pops away. Do they even sell it any more? And what would you have for pudding/dessert? It's been ages since I had a Higgs-Boson cake hmmm I can taste it now :)

The sense of taste is essentially a chemical reaction between food and the taste receptors in the mouth. Dark matter doesn't react chemically with ordinary matter (otherwise we would be able to detect the reactions). So dark matter doesn't have any taste.

Nor would you be able to see it, or touch it, or hear it, or smell it.

Only two interactions are possible.

You would in principle feel the gravitational attraction of the dark matter, but this would be negligible for quantities of matter smaller than, say, planetary mass.

Your best hope of detecting dark matter in your mouth is if turned out to be self-annihilating, which some theories predict. In which case all the dark matter in your mouth would annihilate in a blaze of gamma rays, annihilating you at the same time. Fortunately we suspect that dark matter isn't common in the solar system (I've seen estimates of a density equivalent to a few atoms per cubic meter) so you are unlikely to suffer this fate.

It would taste like an astrotart. However, since your dark matter tongue wouldnt be perveived by your brain, you would have no way of intetpreting those 'taste signals' on your buds.

Great question. Hope that helps.

Probably a bit like troll!

Like the dark meat of a chicken

There is, actually dark matter in your mouth right now. So, how does it taste?

Can't believe no "Chocolate" responses. That's what I thought when I read this question. Probably more like Ghirardelli than Hershey's.

It would have no "taste", for the tongue can only respond to molecules of visible matter.

Chicken.

It would taste identical to its (light) matter equivalent.

All the best.