Taste Tests

Trickiness Week continues with some tricky fun with food

ADDED February 02, 2009

For us, food is endless fun.  Buying food, cooking it, eating it, and yes, even talking about it provide hours of enjoyment.  Anything with so much variety is inherently interesting, right?

And here's more fun with food:  Taste Tests!

Are you old enough to remember the Pepsi Challenge?  In that test, blindfolded people sipped both Coke and Pepsi, and then announced which they liked better.  (Big surprise:  Pepsi won, and was the favorite of most of the participants.)

Why not have a taste test tonight at your house?  All you need is a blindfold and some similar foods.

Your blindfolded kids can do two things:  (1) try to guess which food is which (this can be tricky!), and (2) announce which food is their preference.

Here are some similar foods for them to compare, side by side:

Oranges vs. Tangerines
Apples vs. Pears
Crunch peanut butter vs. creamy
Different kinds of sliced cheese (cheddar vs. Swiss)
Hot dogs vs. sausages
BBQ Sauce vs. Ketchup
Different flavors of yogurt (strawberry vs. rasberry)
Whole wheat bread vs. white bread
Ice cream vs. frozen yogurt
M & M's vs. Skittles

Have fun with this one.  Please use the comment section below to let us know about your results with your kids.  With all the fun and tricky tasting, everyone will pass the taste test!  (Oh, and one more thing:  try not to get any food on the blindfold!)

--S

ages 3-12, good at home, good for a group, good for mealtimes, rainy day fun,

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