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-