Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Taste (Noun)
As bad taste as a wig from the barber’s on the head of a marble statue of Apollo.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Left a taste in his mouth like a tin-type factory.
—Irvin S. Cobb
A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.
—Robert Southey