We play these games all the time with friends and family. Formal tastings, family game nights, all kinds of excuses.
Tequila? Easy to distinguish for nearly everyone. Jelly beans? Some people just don’t miss while others hit 50ish% with issues on similar flavors. Vodka? Good luck unless you‘re a distributor or similar. Light beers? Most fail outside of maybe having 1-2 brands locked in. Olive oils, salts … this week we even taste tested
eggs from different
chickens.
I’d equate leaded versus unleaded to Coke versus Diet Coke. It’s almost instantly obvious to nearly everyone. Oh ok, take away weight because that shouldn’t matter for some strange reason. Textured inlays. Oh ok, take away the textured inlays because some don’t actually have them. They still sound/thud different. Or will we also have to wear ear muffs to prove it’s
actually the lead inside the chip that we like and not leaded chips in general?
Hell, I know guys here who could listen to someone shuffle five blind stacks
over FaceTime and they’d hit 5/5 leaded or unleaded just from the sound, and they might even catch us on the
BCC we snuck in, too.
If that’s too unbelievable, relate it to wine or bourbon. Handle (taste) enough and you’re just rarely gonna get fooled. You also find favorites very quickly.
Sure, present extremes from both camps and then make them hold their nose and stand on their head and eat sweet tarts right before they taste or whatever variables you choose to ignore, and they’re gonna mistake similar profiles on occasion. There are plenty of exceptions to the rule, but it doesn’t discredit the rule. It just is what it is.
Speaking of bourbon, I’m confident plenty of dudes here would gladly gamble over a bourbon taste test, many guessing down to the distillery — and even specific rickhouses in some cases.
Just because someone else can’t doesn’t make it less so. Same goes for lead. And chickens.
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