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Second Graders Treated to a Seven-Course $220 Tasting Meal [video]

70 points by learc83 12y ago

dzhiurgis 12y ago
This is rather normal. When we eat the taste checksum goes thru our memory to look for matches (a.i. mother's pie) and associate good emotions. Kids do not have much memory, but perhaps once they come back to the same restaurant 30 years later they will get this flashback. Also their taste buds are probably more sensitive for certain chemicals that by now we are used to. For now the easiest way to get them high is sugar. What was also fun to watch how some of them mimic table manners.
GuiA 12y ago
Simpsons already did it! Or rather, the Bold Italic did: http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/5607-a-four-year-old-reviews-the-french-laundry http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/5607-a-four-year-old-r...
- judk 12y ago
  Sigh, another super fancy web design that utterly fails on mobile. The article is covered by a popup ad that is impossible to dismiss or even covert on!
  - Luyt 12y ago
    I'm also mildly annoyed by these popups which conceal the content you came for, and ask you to sign up or rate the site. Why do the site designers think I can decide that, when I just arrived?
BorisMelnik 12y ago
adorable, I've eaten at boloud in South Florida and it is quite a sensual celebration.
vijayboyapati 12y ago
"A toast! To justice... and to vampires!" That made my day.
- ZirconCode 12y ago
  "Well... next time will be macaroni and cheese"
  - ohashi 12y ago
    The chef was a real champ about the whole thing. The whole video was very cute and charming.
elorant 12y ago
This just made my day. And seriously, I like their frankness more than the pretentious style most food critics have. Judging by their reactions at least half of the course was nice.
- thret 12y ago
  I realise tastes do change as you age, but it was refreshing to see honest and polite food critics. Also hilarious.
owenversteeg 12y ago
Oh my god, they melted my heart. Those are the cutest kids possible. I loved how the chef integrated balloons into the meal :)
- Scribblenaut9 12y ago
  They looked so sweet in their fancy outfits!
naner 12y ago
Pretty sure that kid in the blazer only ate desert!
octonion 12y ago
Next up for the New York Times - toddlers smoking fine Cuban cigars.
kyledrake 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
alimoeeny 12y ago
It was nerve racking.

70 points by learc83 12y ago

This is rather normal. When we eat the taste checksum goes thru our memory to look for matches (a.i. mother's pie) and associate good emotions. Kids do not have much memory, but perhaps once they come back to the same restaurant 30 years later they will get this flashback. Also their taste buds are probably more sensitive for certain chemicals that by now we are used to. For now the easiest way to get them high is sugar. What was also fun to watch how some of them mimic table manners.

GuiA 12y ago

Simpsons already did it! Or rather, the Bold Italic did: http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/5607-a-four-year-old-reviews-the-french-laundry http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/5607-a-four-year-old-r...

judk 12y ago
Sigh, another super fancy web design that utterly fails on mobile. The article is covered by a popup ad that is impossible to dismiss or even covert on!
- Luyt 12y ago
  I'm also mildly annoyed by these popups which conceal the content you came for, and ask you to sign up or rate the site. Why do the site designers think I can decide that, when I just arrived?

BorisMelnik 12y ago

adorable, I've eaten at boloud in South Florida and it is quite a sensual celebration.

vijayboyapati 12y ago

"A toast! To justice... and to vampires!" That made my day.

ZirconCode 12y ago
"Well... next time will be macaroni and cheese"
- ohashi 12y ago
  The chef was a real champ about the whole thing. The whole video was very cute and charming.

elorant 12y ago

This just made my day. And seriously, I like their frankness more than the pretentious style most food critics have. Judging by their reactions at least half of the course was nice.

thret 12y ago
I realise tastes do change as you age, but it was refreshing to see honest and polite food critics. Also hilarious.

owenversteeg 12y ago

Oh my god, they melted my heart. Those are the cutest kids possible. I loved how the chef integrated balloons into the meal :)

Scribblenaut9 12y ago
They looked so sweet in their fancy outfits!

naner 12y ago

Pretty sure that kid in the blazer only ate desert!

octonion 12y ago

Next up for the New York Times - toddlers smoking fine Cuban cigars.

kyledrake 12y ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

alimoeeny 12y ago

It was nerve racking.