302: Potato Chip Taste Test

We recorded IN PERSON! Trace brought back a whole bunch of fun flavored chips from Uwajimaya, a fantastic Asian grocery store in Seattle! Check out the show notes for our 5 other taste test episodes! Show Notes: P.S. If you like the Non Newtonian fluid cup, it's in our Merch store! P.S.S. in defense of the Pizza flavored chips, when Trace tried them the next day, she could taste the peperoni. Other Taste Test episodes: 9: Crazy food (we eat cherry pickles) 138: Turkey Candy Corn 142: Socially Distanced Taste Test 229: Taco Truck Jelly Bean Taste Test! 235: Tailgate Candy Corn Transcript: [00:00:03] Speaker A: Welcome to Brain Junk. I'm Amy Barton. [00:00:05] Speaker B: And I'm Trace Kerr. And we're in the same room together. [00:00:09] Speaker A: I was just debating. Can I interrupt and say we're here together, right by each other. [00:00:14] Speaker B: It's kind of weird. And we only have one microphone because equipment. And so we're very close. We're standing very not. We're not huggers. We're very close to each other. But we're here because we're going. I know. We're going to talk about. We're going to do a taste test. [00:00:28] Speaker A: Yes. And we're having a whole sensory experience right now already. Actually, there are some smells happening here. [00:00:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Because I wanted to do the fun, different potato chips that we don't get here in the United States. But every time I go on, like Amazon or something, the teeny tiny bags were an insane amount of money. [00:00:49] Speaker A: Yes. Like 39 99 for two bags or something. Absurd. [00:00:52] Speaker B: And then shipping. [00:00:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:00:54] Speaker B: And I was at Wajamaya, which is an asian grocery store over in Seattle this weekend, and they had like a wall of a variety of chips. [00:01:06] Speaker A: Do you remember when lay's did? They had a whole series, so it was like biscuits and gravy and there was like a korean barbecue or something. That was delightful. But that's as close as we've gotten here in the US to anything unique. Yeah. [00:01:18] Speaker B: So all different. I immediately texted Amy and I was like, how do you feel about this? And you were like, no seafood. But what we're doing is I put tags on the little chip bags of numbers one through seven. [00:01:33] Speaker A: Nice. [00:01:33] Speaker B: And then I made plates with one through seven and then gave it to Chaz. And he was like, we should have double blind randomized. And I was like, no, do not take the numbers off of the bags so we don't know. So we can try to figure out what the flavor is just by tasting it, and then we can check the bags. [00:01:52] Speaker A: Excellent. [00:01:53] Speaker B: See how close we were, because I love that idea. Science. Although it's only two people, I predict. [00:02:01] Speaker A: That I am going to be very suggestible because my sense of smell is not always particularly reliable. I thought we had an electrical burning smell and they're like, oh, no, that's peach tea or something. All right. Yeah, that could also be that it wasn't peach tea, but it was something entirely different. And so I'm... This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brainjunkpodcast.substack.com