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In their recent paper, Li and colleagues discover that cold food tastes less sweet to flies, in part by activating bitter sensory neurons through a rhodopsin-dependent mechanism [1]. This work establishes temperature as an important variable in understanding fly taste processing and adds diversity to the sensory roles for rhodopsin receptors.