Tastefully Challenged, Part II and III
We established in Part I: Pepsi vs. Coke that F can accurately identify Coke and Pepsi, whereas I can only tell that they are different, but not which is which.
In Part II, we tested the Lemon-Lime / Lymon tastes of Sprite vs. 7-UP. Now, I think it's fair to say nobody much cares about the clear sodas, so we didn't dare claim that we'd be able to identify which is which. We merely wanted to test whether we could tell the difference, so we skipped straight to the triangle test.
F's setup
Sprite in the middle was the odd one out. Not only did he say which of these three was not like the others, but upon first taste he identified which was which.
Show-off!My setup
7-UP in the middle was the odd one out. I got it right, just like in the dark colas triangle challenge. Whoop-dee-doo.
Part III was much more interesting. F claims to be something of a root beer conoisseur, since he was able to summon all kinds of obscure brands to his family restaurant during childhood. My office stocks not only Mug (Pepsi) and Barq's (Coke), but A&W root beer as well! So, we did a head-to-head-to-head challenge: taste all three and identify which is which is which.
F identified all three exactly right
His reasons: A&W is sweet like candy/creamsicle, Barq's has bite like licorice/sarsparilla, and Mug is in between and not distinctive like the other two.I got all three completely wrong
My reasons: "C" didn't taste like root beer at all. It smelled like burning, which I interpreted to be the licorice (F kept smelling and said it was clearly vanilla); "A" tasted "hollow", so I labeled it as Mug based on F's description that Mug lacks distinction. "B" tasted the sweetest and most like root beer, so I called it A&W.
I feel so taste-tarded!
In Part II, we tested the Lemon-Lime / Lymon tastes of Sprite vs. 7-UP. Now, I think it's fair to say nobody much cares about the clear sodas, so we didn't dare claim that we'd be able to identify which is which. We merely wanted to test whether we could tell the difference, so we skipped straight to the triangle test.
F's setup
Sprite in the middle was the odd one out. Not only did he say which of these three was not like the others, but upon first taste he identified which was which.
Show-off!My setup
7-UP in the middle was the odd one out. I got it right, just like in the dark colas triangle challenge. Whoop-dee-doo.
Part III was much more interesting. F claims to be something of a root beer conoisseur, since he was able to summon all kinds of obscure brands to his family restaurant during childhood. My office stocks not only Mug (Pepsi) and Barq's (Coke), but A&W root beer as well! So, we did a head-to-head-to-head challenge: taste all three and identify which is which is which.
F identified all three exactly right
His reasons: A&W is sweet like candy/creamsicle, Barq's has bite like licorice/sarsparilla, and Mug is in between and not distinctive like the other two.I got all three completely wrong
My reasons: "C" didn't taste like root beer at all. It smelled like burning, which I interpreted to be the licorice (F kept smelling and said it was clearly vanilla); "A" tasted "hollow", so I labeled it as Mug based on F's description that Mug lacks distinction. "B" tasted the sweetest and most like root beer, so I called it A&W.
I feel so taste-tarded!