Tastefully Challenged
Another by-product of reading Blink is an intense desire to repeat the Pepsi Challenge of the 1980s, famous for revealing that people preferred Pepsi over Coke in blind taste tests.
Malcolm Gladwell claims that the average person doesn't have a refined enough palate to tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke. Preposterous! Everyone I know has a strong preference for one over the other, and we'd obviously be able to identify our favorite.
So, I went to work with a big bag today and snuck home 9 cans of soda to perform our tests of Pepsi vs. Coke, Sprite vs. 7UP, and A&W vs. Barq's vs. Mug. We're not big soda drinkers, so we only did one challenge today:
First, the head-to-head test. Could we taste a cup of Coke and a cup of Pepsi and identify which is which?
1. Subject = F, A = Pepsi, B = Coke
A = Pepsi, B = CokeThumbs up for Coke on B...correct!
2. Subject = M, A = Coke, B = Pepsi
A = Coke, B = PepsiFor me, Pepsi is thumbs up! But I'm wrong!
Then, we tried the "triangle test", which Malcolm Gladwell claims is impossible for our weak tongues. It uses three cups: two are the same, one is different. All you have to do is identify which one is different.
3. Subject = F, A = odd one out (Pepsi)
A = Pepsi, B & C = CokeThumbs down! You're out! and he's right!
4. Subject = M, C = odd one out (Pepsi)
A & B = Coke, C = PepsiI chose C correctly, but only because I thought it was Coke and the others were Pepsi! Sort of right!
So, we have conclusive proof that F is so-da-MAN! and I am so-DUH.
Malcolm Gladwell claims that the average person doesn't have a refined enough palate to tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke. Preposterous! Everyone I know has a strong preference for one over the other, and we'd obviously be able to identify our favorite.
So, I went to work with a big bag today and snuck home 9 cans of soda to perform our tests of Pepsi vs. Coke, Sprite vs. 7UP, and A&W vs. Barq's vs. Mug. We're not big soda drinkers, so we only did one challenge today:
First, the head-to-head test. Could we taste a cup of Coke and a cup of Pepsi and identify which is which?
1. Subject = F, A = Pepsi, B = Coke
A = Pepsi, B = CokeThumbs up for Coke on B...correct!
2. Subject = M, A = Coke, B = Pepsi
A = Coke, B = PepsiFor me, Pepsi is thumbs up! But I'm wrong!
Then, we tried the "triangle test", which Malcolm Gladwell claims is impossible for our weak tongues. It uses three cups: two are the same, one is different. All you have to do is identify which one is different.
3. Subject = F, A = odd one out (Pepsi)
A = Pepsi, B & C = CokeThumbs down! You're out! and he's right!
4. Subject = M, C = odd one out (Pepsi)
A & B = Coke, C = PepsiI chose C correctly, but only because I thought it was Coke and the others were Pepsi! Sort of right!
So, we have conclusive proof that F is so-da-MAN! and I am so-DUH.