Today, my daughter has been using the "supertaster" excuse to not eat my cooking. To prove to her that she isn't one, I blindfolded her and gave her a bowl of jelly beans, then asked her to plug her nose and identify the flavors. She got every single one correct. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my four year old daughter came up to me with her finger in her ear. She then let me know that her earwax tasted better than the dinner I made. In front of my whole family. FML
Today, my mom tried a new recipe for dinner. She proudly served what she called "gourmet vegetable stew." One bite later, I had to fight every urge to not gag. She asked me how it tasted, and with a straight face, I said, "Delicious!" She then asked for my honest opinion, so I told her it was, um, "an acquired taste." She hasn’t spoken to me since. FML
Today, without even trying, I convinced my 17-year-old daughter that blueberries are just peas holding their breath. I have raised a complete airhead. FML
Today, my 3-year-old daughter came along, pointing a finger at me. I pretended to eat it by putting it in my mouth. She then said to me with disgust, "Why are you eating my booger?" Ah, that explains the saltiness… FML
Today, while trying to get my picky daughter to eat her dinner, I pretended to take some of her food and give it to her brother, thinking that would get her to eat it. Instead, she thanked me. FML
Today, my two year old daughter was playing in the kitchen. I went to go have a look and she was pretend cooking. When I asked what she was making she said "look mommy, chocolate!" and stuck her finger in my mouth. It wasn't chocolate. FML
Today, I was babysitting a 7 year-old girl and we were eating chocolate covered nuts. She kept on chewing the nuts and wondered where the chocolate was. I told her to taste the chocolate you suck on the nuts. Then her parents came home and the first thing she said was, "I learned how to suck nuts!" FML
Today, I spent all day carefully preparing a wonderful homemade beef and vegetable stew from scratch. Close to dinner time, I tasted it and it was inedibly salty. Confused, my horrifically bratty stepdaughter then laughed and admitted she poured salt in it because it wasn’t what she wanted for dinner. FML
Today, after repeatedly telling my partner's family that our daughter is allergic to peanuts, his grandfather decided to feed her one, to "see if she really is allergic." FML
Today, I found out that the reason my soda always tastes funny is because my fiancé likes to mix different flavors together to see if I'll notice. FML
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Yudith 28
Sounds like somebody has a glorious future in cooking. Better have her start right now, everyday, in your kitchen, preparing dinner.
BurnInDemonFire 39
I could sort of see this working when testing brand foods against generic store stuff, but jelly beans are distinctly flavored, so she was in with a good chance of getting them all right.
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raven_of_azarath 35
Everyone’s saying OP set the daughter up to win, but OP had her plug her nose. That cancels out all taste. Even black licorice, the strongest flavor I know.
ChibiChibi_fml 28
Plugging your nose does not, as you put it, "Cancel out all taste". It simply eliminates one level of tasting and in the case of Jelly beans that level isn't all that important. Think about it, how often do you actually smell jelly beans before eating them vs something like chocolate or in a non-candy sense, chicken? If mom had tried this test with Cheese or the like she would have had a better shot proving her daughter wrong because for that the extra layer goes a long way in letting you know what your eating. Seriously imagine trying to tell the difference between Dolcelatte and Roquefort without being able to smell anything. That would be a vastly different and much harder test than "Is this a Pina Colada jelly bean or Cherry". TL/DR- If plugging your nose actually cancelled out all taste, we wouldn't have people do it because tasting no flavor defeats the purpose of trying to identify what flavor it is you are tasting.
Taurus_ChicKa 37
Maybe she anticipated this argument and had been practicing.
tonyfan00 38
Now THAT is ******* impressive!
ARISKomuniszt 24
A lot of children actually are supertasters, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't eat their parent's home cooked food...
ChibiChibi_fml 28
Argumentatively, if the child is a Super Taster and the parent really sucks at cooking, isn't that kind of just constantly torturing the kid to force them to eat what the parent cooked? Notice the OP specifically says that the daughter has been using the excuse to "not eat my cooking". Which implies that she is in fact eating something. That could mean that the actual issue here is simply that the parent in question is a terrible cook who should either take a cooking class or start allowing their kid to prepare their own meals.
Olubunmi Akinlade Omeni 7
This is a clear case of a child being smarter than the parent. You taste with your tongue right?
ChibiChibi_fml 28
I'm not sure what you mean here. The OP did the right thing in blindfolding her child and plugging her nose for the taste test. The only thing she did wrong was choose jelly beans which 1. Are extremely child friendly and therefore something she is likely to be used to and 2. Very light on scent so they don't lose much by eliminating it. If she had wanted to do an accurate test she would have gone with something like cheese which actually does rely heavily on both it's scent and actual taste in order to create it's flavors.