Professional Taste Tester, Is it the Best Job Ever asks Vicki Frost

Unless you have issues with food, would being a professional taste tester qualify as Best Job Ever asks Vicki Frost (Guardian).
She met Bronwen Percival, a cheese buyer at Neal’s Yard Dairy (London), Dee Blackstock, a champagne buyer for Waitrose, and Micah Carr-Hill, head of taste for Green & Blacks chocolate to find out.

On the same topic, Catherine Donaldson-Evans penned Professional Tasters Eat and Drink for a Living (Fox News, January 2004).

Can you suffer palate fatigue?
How many foods or wines will you taste before you loose sense of their distinct flavors?
In what order do you approach your sampling?

I usually pick things I do not know or ask the producer for suggestions.

Using a more scientific approach Kansas State University has a team of 10 white coat wearing researchers whose job is to Find the right words to design better tasting foods for consumers.

It is true that in order to find out what people like, you have to read between the lines.

In the US at least, for wines for example, the average diner will ask for a merlot signaling that they want something lighter than a cabernet sauvignon. Others asking for a sweet white wine are likely to mean fruit forward which does not really mean sweet.

In the grand scheme of things, perceptions can vary anyway.

What would be your dream job?

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Related: Job Idea Number 3: Master Tea Taster