Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast

this week coming to you live from Canterbury. My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with

Anna Toshinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the

microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in a particular order

here we go starting with fact number one and that is Andy. My fact is that if it's served carefully

enough nobody can tell the difference between patty and dog food. You've all been wasting your

money all these years. I'm not coming to your restaurant. How do you um how do you serve it if

what's the difference? Well this was a study done by the American Association of Wine Economists in

2009. Well I guess just got bored of studying wine and sort of branch out into wine-affiliated

foods like pate and they basically they were trying to work out if people could tell the difference

so the the researchers they blended up some dog food that's what they did until they

looked like live and moose basically and then they had about I think 18 subjects and they challenged

them to to work out which was dog food and which was not and about one person in six guest dog food

but there were six samples so there's no better than chance effectively that people tell. I

should say you're being a bit unfair Andy they also garnished it with parsley. Sorry sorry

everything I passed the on. So the really weird thing about this is that people knew it was

horrible but they just didn't know it wasn't patty. They knew that one of the things was dog food.

Right. 72% of the people who tasted it said well that is the worst thing in this whole array of

samples but most of them five and six did not say that. So presumably they thought this is

disgusting but that can't possibly they think dog food tastes better than it does. I think yeah

I think they did and I think the researchers have told them don't worry we're not going to feed you

something horrible and they they tasted that miserable that is horrible so it can't be the dog food.

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