SLAS Times 2018/2019 Winter 2019 | Page 34

The Feast of the Blind by Andrew Park T hree journalism students at SLAS, Anthony Yates ready full from lunch. (10th grade), Drabya Rana (9th grade), and Kei Final Rating: 5/10 Lucas Taichi (9th grade), tasted ten popular snacks from China, blind folded, for your entertainment. Chicken Wings: Ten snacks were prepared, including: beef on a stick, chicken wings, quail eggs, spicy steak, duck tongue, chicken feet, black pepper flavored steak, beef jerky, seaweed, and mint gum for dessert. The next food was chick- en wings. This snack had a gelatinous film cover- ing the boiled chicken. Although the taste of the wing is salty, it looked bare. According to the subjects, the texture was slimy and felt like touching an insect. Anthony said, “The taste of the chicken wing is very salty, and I do not like it. I will never eat this again.” Kei was gagging and said that this was akin to torture. Beef on a Stick: Final Rating: 3/10 The experiment took place one afternoon in Mr. van West’s room. The subjects were tasked to eat plastic wrapped Chinese snacks while blindfolded as the rest of the journalism team recorded their observa- tions. Fragrant pieces of spicy beef were arranged on a Quail Eggs: wooden stick. The pieces of beef were wet, glisten- ing, and covered in spice. Anthony said, “The beef is a little spicy.” No one finished the snack, perhaps because they were al- These eggs were more yellowish and squish- ier than normal quail eggs. The shells were soft and were not able to be peeled off, so the sub-