Add in some whole grain mustard and baby, you’ve got a stew going!
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Today is definitely a High Fructose Friday.
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Are the pretzels making you thirsty?
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they are making me thirsty!
I had occasion to try a diet Shasta lemon lime last weekend, I would not have been able to distinguish it from a full sugar soda. I don’t drink a lot of soda (mixers for drinks is general use case, and I’m not a frequent drinker) but I can usually taste the difference between diet and regular, but not for this. I was reasonably impressed.
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We once had a soda pop tasting competition at work, to settle year’s worth of assertions and arguments.
A guy had asserted that he could easily tell the taste difference between Mt. Dew from a 12oz aluminum can vs a 16oz bottle.
People had asserted that they love Pepsi and hated Coke, and were willing to bet on their ability to blindly discern between the two.
It turns out the Mt Dew guy could NOT tell the difference between canned or bottled Mt Dew. In fact, he couldn’t tell the difference between regular Mt Dew and diet Mt Dew.
We put 10 small cups of Pepsi and Coke (5 of each) in front of each person, and nobody could correctly go 10 for 10 in deciding which was which. Maybe people could get the first 2,3 or 4 correct, but after that your brain & taste buds have decided that it’s all just the same stuff, even with saltines between tastes.
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I wanta pop!
I wanta Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhasta!
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I impulse purchased a marked down flatbread pizza thing at the grocery store today for $2.50 (it was set to expire Sunday). I’m thinking $1.25/person is the cheapest meal I’ve had in a long time, and particularly so in the US. It was decent.
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This reminds me of a mythbusters episode on fancy vs cheap vodka, and the myth was that filtered cheap vodka was the same as fancy vodka. They filtered cheap vodka a number of times in a Brita filter IIRC: 1x, 3x, 5x…and had a blind tasting with a quality vodka where all the samples had to be ranked in order of preference. The vodka taster “expert” did super well and only slightly misordered the filtered ones (maybe switched 5x with 7x, or something like that). The mythbusters guys couldn’t tell much of a difference in the samples.
I had my wedding at a venue where we could bring our own wine. A few months before the wedding I decided to do blind tasting with 15-20 friends: 6 reds, 6 whites, huge range of prices. I was trying to decide whether most people would notice if we went high end or not. My friends wound up picking the cheapest white I picked and the 3rd cheapest red I think.
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Random thought from watching Charlie’s country trailer where they took away his animal for not having a tag.
I was moose hunting this year when I ran into a woman looking to move through the area to get to where she was hunting. Since she lived in the area, I told her I’d pack up and move somewhere else. Then I asked her if she had a tag for a bull or cow, and she said bull.
It later dawned on me that I’m pretty sure she was first Nations and doesn’t need a tag. Awkward.
That’s interesting. We once did a testing of generic cola vs. Pepsi because one woman claimed there was no difference. Every person who tasted them blind thought Pepsi had a richer flavor, including the woman who made the initial claim.
Not sure I could tell between Coke and Pepsi because I don’t eat sugar, but I can and have identified the difference between Diet Pepsi, Diet Coke, and Coke Zero. But I didn’t have to do five cups of each, at some point that would get confusing.
Yeah, I think that’s the flaw in the experiment.
I can see doing it multiple times but some time is needed in between to recover the senses.
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I can tell the difference between regular ____ and diet ____, especially if the diet soda has Splenda with it.
Within 10 minutes of ingesting Splenda, my eyes will feel like they’re being gouged out.
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Witnessed a car wreck today. Stayed to make sure victim got a ride home. Now I’m exhausted. Wonder if it’s PTSD from a similar crash I was in several years ago.
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I witnessed one in my rear view mirror today. it was a big ass-pickup.
I just kept driving. There was nothing I could do.
Why do I have a smaller fork for pie. Like, it’s just pie.
You should have a bigger fork.
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Yeah, lobster forks aren’t super efficient for pie.