Taste-testers

Last night Jake and I had a taste-testing contest.  When I was little, I used to love going over to the babysitter's house to play that game.  It's a little different when you're older, but it's still fun.

We each got 5 guesses- 3 of which were simply with our eyes closed and 2 were with eyes closed AND with noses plugged.  It turns out that we're both really bad at guessing when our noses are plugged.  We both were able to correctly guess the first three (bacon bits, brown sugar, and sprinkles were the ones Jake guessed correctly; chocolate syrup, honey, and dry hot chocolate mix were my correct guesses), but we both missed the ones with our noses plugged (spaghetti sauce & pears were the correct answers Jake missed; tarter sauce and mustard were the correct answers I missed).

I thought the tartar sauce tasted like it had Italian seasoning in it, and I thought the mustard tasted like soy sauce.  They both tasted gross.  So, it turns out that being able to smell your food while you eat it is quite beneficial.  Anyway, it was fun.  When we realized that we tied at the end, Jake said "We're good tie-ers!"  I thought he meant "tires" even though he tried to emphasize what he meant.  I wasn't sure how playing with food made us tires.  Whoops!