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Taste (a Roald Dahl Short Story)

by Roald Dahl

"Taste" is a short story by Roald Dahl that was first published in the March of 1945 issue of Ladies Home Journal. It later appeared in the Dec 8 1951 New Yorker and the 1953 collection Someone Like You. Also contained in: [Alle Verhalen](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24208237W) [Best of Roald Dahl](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45879W/The_Best_of_Roald_Dahl) [Best of Roald Dahl](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17495745W) [Collected Short Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL10561689W) [Fireside Al's Treasury of Classic Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9534200W/Fireside_Al's_Treasury_of_Classic_Stories) [Further Tales of the Unexpected](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45805W) [Innocence](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21156383W) [Roald Dahl Omnibus](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091154W/The_Roald_Dahl_Omnibus) [Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15332224W) [Secret Ingredients](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1904988W) [Shaken and Stirred](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20040635W) [Someone Like You](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45868W/Someone_Like_You) [Stories of Suspense](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15153031W) [Tangled Web](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20029533W) [Taste of the Unexpected](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091197W) [Tel est pris qui croyait prendre](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091201W) [Umbrella Man and Other Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45862W/The_Umbrella_Man_and_Other_Stories)

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?