No, I haven’t entered any eating contest or something like that. I was lucky enough to take part in a market survey taste test thing for a large, casual restaurant chain. Myself and seven other participants sat in a room and tasted 3 different sets of 3 double-steakburgers. That’s right 9 burgers in about 45 minutes. Luckily we didn’t have to finish them, we were just tasting them. Although I would have been willing to attempt to polish them off for some kind of recognition or financial compensation.
It was interesting, for each set of 3, there were two that were alike and one that was different. It was sometimes pretty hard to tell the difference between the two. I think sometimes your head starts playing games with your taste buds.
At one point, a little conspiracy thought entered my cerebrum and I began thinking that the people behind the one-way mirrored wall at the front of the room were “watching” us for other reasons and it had nothing to do with steakburgers.
Hopefully they’ll call me back, I could get used to doing stuff like that on a weekly basis.