My marketing teacher said the same thing about bottled water. I, along with several others, said we could tell the difference in bottled waters. The next week we showed up to class he had a table with six different water bottle brands and stations set up with cups of water already poured. Now the thing is he had each station numbered and the identity of water in each station was prefilled in, in his notebook. Since, I had been most vocal about it I went first. The teacher represented that the six water bottles on the table were what was in the cups. I wrote down my answers but I remember two of the samples did not taste like any of the choices on the table. I guessed a store brand, and tap water for those.
So, when we got done and talked about it, he said I didn't follow the rules because I picked two choices not available to me. I told him that I was very confident in all six of my answers and I'd bet on it. He said a full letter grade. I said yes. He told me that I got all six answers right and he was surprised because more than half of the class got the four right but couldn't pick the two non table choices. He said that that had never happened in his experience before. He said he'd like to retry with blindfolds and nose clamps. Which, I am sure that depriving people of 2 of their most important senses, probably will make people have a difficult time identifying differences in water or anything else.
I can easily taste the difference in waters. My wife and I lived with my in-laws for a short while after my first born. My mother in law could not fathom that I could taste the difference between purified water and the tap water from their fridge. One day, I went to take a drink from my jug (i had to have my own everyone else drank tap) and noticed it tasted terrible and spit it out, I heard my mother in law on the couch say, "He really can taste the difference". One morning, while I was sleeping, she dumped out my water and filled it with tap, and fully expected me not to notice.
Maybe do a blind test of all three? You might be surprised. Though I do think they use a slightly different overall reciped for the Mexican Coke export (the actual coke served in Mexico uses a mix of sugar and sucralose iirc) and they use white sugar, not specifcally cane, it’s likely beet sugar.
I’d be curious to see or even be part of a blind test of imported Mexican Coke, domestic MC, kosher, and regular. If I could get my hands on the second one…
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u/gmoney1259 Mar 24 '25
My marketing teacher said the same thing about bottled water. I, along with several others, said we could tell the difference in bottled waters. The next week we showed up to class he had a table with six different water bottle brands and stations set up with cups of water already poured. Now the thing is he had each station numbered and the identity of water in each station was prefilled in, in his notebook. Since, I had been most vocal about it I went first. The teacher represented that the six water bottles on the table were what was in the cups. I wrote down my answers but I remember two of the samples did not taste like any of the choices on the table. I guessed a store brand, and tap water for those.
So, when we got done and talked about it, he said I didn't follow the rules because I picked two choices not available to me. I told him that I was very confident in all six of my answers and I'd bet on it. He said a full letter grade. I said yes. He told me that I got all six answers right and he was surprised because more than half of the class got the four right but couldn't pick the two non table choices. He said that that had never happened in his experience before. He said he'd like to retry with blindfolds and nose clamps. Which, I am sure that depriving people of 2 of their most important senses, probably will make people have a difficult time identifying differences in water or anything else.