This video demonstrates how humans can identify food through remaining senses when deprived of others, showing that taste, smell, and texture work together to create flavor perception, and that removing one sense significantly impairs the ability to identify food items.
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Dinner, but we can't see anything
Added:[DINOS GRUNTING] YEAH! HYAH!
[DINOS AGGRESSIVELY CLEANING] [COOL SYNTH PLAYS] HIGH FIVE! HIGH FIVE!
[SCREECH OF A RED TAILED HAWK] [NOT AN EAGLE] [DAN] But did you see how it was sort of like mealy, like corn-- [ARIN] It was a little mealy, but corn is way mealier.
[D] Okay.
🎵 [JAZZY TUNES] 🎵 🎵 [INTRO BY HARRY FOSTER] 🎵 [A] Did we fade in from the dark?
And now we fade in.
[EVERYONE LAUGHS] [D] What's up power bottoms?
This is Dan and Arin... and we are... what are we doing today, Arin?
It's the 10 Minute Power Hour.
[A] Darkness imprisons us all that we eat, absolute taste.
What a great food.
What a great munch.
You know what I'm saying?
[D] Yup.
Splinter Cell Dee.
[DEE] Yeah.
[A] Yeah, Splinter Cell Craig.
[E] What's up?
So this is gonna be a sensory deprivation dinner.
[A] Yeah.
[E] And there's five courses, and with each course, we're gonna take away another sense.
[D] Cool.
[DINOS GO WEEE & CAN CLANGS] 🎵 [CHILL SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] 🎵 TEXT: [See no evil (I mean food...)] [D] This is very peaceful.
[A] Yeah, it's like, um... [D] This is like in kindergarten when you would take the blankets out of your cubby holes and they do nap time in the middle of the day.
[A] It's like a spa.
[D] Yeah.
[A] Spa day.
[D] Sensory deprivation.
[E] You guys ready?
[D] Yes.
[E] There you go.
Can you feel it?
There you go.
[A] Oh, oh, oh. [D] Oh, oh, oh, oh.
[A] Is it like just stuff to pick at?
[D] This feels like a pepper.
[A] That's a pepper.
[D] That's a pepper.
Is it just a big old plate of peppers?
[A] It's just a big old plate of bell peppers.
[TOASTY] But you gotta guess the color.
[A] What do you mean guess the color?
It's the same!
Red.
[D] Green.
[E] Well, I guess Arin was closer.
It's an orange.
[A] Oh, for 🌶️ sake.
Orange.
[A] I feel like we need a blindfold too.
[D] I'm keeping my eyes closed. [A] Oh, for real?
[D] Yeah. [A] That's a good idea.
All right, let me do that.
[D] It smells odd when I brought it close to my face.
[SOUNDS OF DISAPPROVAL] [D] What's happening?
The cup feels heavy as if there's something in there and yet when I pour it, nothing presents itself.
[A] What the frick is that?
It's familiar, but... It's seasoned with Italian seasoning or something [D] Mhmm.
[A] that's just been soaked... So maybe stuffing?
[D] It tastes a little like a melted crouton.
[A] Ugh, gross. 🍕 disgusting.
[DAN LAUGHS] [D] Is it a cereal?
Like very wet cereal.
[A] No, no.
[D] You said no like you were so disap-- Wait.
[A] Well, who makes cereal that tastes the 🍕 like Italian seasoning?
[D] Is it pizza?
[A] No way.
[D] Like the pizza you get on a train where they pulled it out of a pre-frozen... [A] Yeah, it's like a frozen pizza.
[D] Mhmm.
[A] Yes, yeah, pizza's great.
That's a great one.
[D] Okay.
[A] I'm gonna say pizza too.
[D] Yeah, like mashed up watery pizza.
[E] Is that your final answer?
[D] Yes. [A] Yeah.
[E] That is correct.
[D] Yeaaaaaah! [A] Nice!
[A] Dan. Way to go.
[D] Yeaaah. [BIG CLAPS FROM ARIN] 🎵 [CHILL TROPICAL MUSIC] 🎵 TEXT: [No touchy time] [A] We're going to spray you with numbing spray.
[D] "We're going to bound your hands."
[A] "You will not know where you are in space."
I feel incapable of anything.
[A]And the bowl... [D] Awwwwhhhhhh.
[D] There's a smush in the center.
[A] Oh, am I just going for it?
[E] Wha- yeah.
[A] Oh.
[UNSURE SOUNDS OF TASTING] [D] I hate this.
Ahhh.
I feel like I'm licking an anemone.
[D] Oh. [A] Oh. Oh!
[D] Yeah, it came to me for a second.
What is it?
[A] Zucchini noodles.
[D] Oh my God.
[A] I'm gonna say zucchini noodles.
[D] It's like you poured out your minestrone soup and now is nothing but the, you know, like the leftover.
As the brand is; Zoodles.
[D] Oh, is it actually zucchini noodles?
[E] Oh yeah, I thought- yeah.
[A] Oh, it is?
[D] Wow! Alright! [A] Yaaaay.
[A] Is it specifically zoodles or did you do them yourself?
[E] No, specifically zoodles.
[A] Yeaaaah.
[D] That's terrific, dude.
God, I want to throw this at the board so bad.
[A] Yeah, I know.
[E] Try it, yeah go for it.
[D] Which way is the board?
[E] No, no, sure, yep, yep.
[T] Follow the sound of my voice. [E] Okay, all right, all right, straight.
[D] Yes? [E] Yeah, go for it.
[E] Yeaaaaah!
[D] All riiiiiight! [A] Wow!
[A] That was like sound design.
[D] It was good.
[E] Yeah.
[D] We're doing Foley in this bitch.
[A] I heard the whoosh, I heard the thunk, and I heard the drip.
🎵 [CHILL PIRATE-Y MUSIC] 🎵 TEXT: [Tongue numb time] [E] Okay, so I have these cups here.
[D] Mm-hmm.
[E] I'll give them to in a second.
They have two different things.
They have a miracle berry in it.
And they have a buzz button.
[A] What the 🍓 is a buzz button Oh my God!
[D] Yeah, I know.
[GAGGING AND GROANING] [D] This is so gross.
[A] And I can swallow this stuff?
[E] Yes.
[A] It won't hurt my tum tum?oh my God!
Oh my God!
Ohhhh!
Not only does it taste weird, it feels weird.
[D] It feels like elves have penetrated my mouth... and are excavating things.
[A] Oh my God.
[D] Its... making my salivary glands go ape 💩.
[A] So this is a drink.
This is a liquid.
I know it's a bit of a hint, but I'll spit out anyway.
[LAUGHING] [A] I don't know if that's just my nose doing the work, but that's like a-- [D] Vanilla-y?
[A] Yeah, that's like a latte or something.
It's like a vanilla latte.
[D] I got some coffee vanilla... [A] Huge coffee hits with the nose.
[D] Yeah. Yeah!
[D] You feel it more with your olfactory senses than your mouth.
[A] When it was in the mouth, it was nothing.
It was just blank.
Once it was like before me and out of me... [D] Mhmm.
[A] It's like my peripherals, my taste peripherals work.
[D] Feeling your taste up, but not out.
[A] Exactly.
[A] Yes, but I wanna lock in a vanilla latte.
[D] Yeah, I think so too.
[A] Okay.
[E] Okay, this is a vanilla cold brew.
[D] Yeaaaaaah! [A] Yay!
[A] That's close, that's close.
[E] I think you did really good.
[A] Basically there.
[D] It's very weird.
You feel the idea of it more than you taste it.
I don't know how to describe that.
[A] Is there a miracle berry for your nose?
I guess we're getting to that.
[D] Cocaine.
[A] We'll get there.
And we're forkin' it up.
[E] You're forking it up.
[A] Is it just kind of all around?
[E] Don't smell it.
[D] Don't smell it?
[A] Yeah, we have smell, right?
[E] Oh yeah, I guess you have smell.
[D] I'm running out of senses, Dee.
[E] That's the point!
[D] Oh.
I don't like the smell.
[D] AHH.
This is like 💩 you eat on a dare.
[ARIN SPITS] [D] Wow, just hearing that in darkness is one of the most upsetting things I've ever experienced in my life.
[A] It's clearly like a romaine or a iceberg lettuce.
[D] Uh-huh.
There's very serious dressing on there.
[A] It's like, yeah- [D] It's a balsamic.
[A] So yeah, I wanna say like a vinaigrette or just straight vinegar.
It's sweet to the taste, [D] Mhmm.
[A] but it's not sweet to the smell.
[D] But harsh to the touch.
[ARIN GRUNTING] [E] Final answer?
[A] Yes.
[E] All right, you're correct.
[A] Yes, is it vinegar or is it vinaigrette? [D] Yeah!
[E] It's balsamic vinegar.
[A] Okay. [D] Mmmmmmm.
[E] Funnn~ 🎵 [CHILL DRAMATIC MUSIC] 🎵 TEXT: [La la la la la we can't hear you] [A] Oh, my God.
[D] Ohhhhhh.
Owwwww.
[A] Ah. [D] Ahhh.
[D] Ooh.
[A] Uh-huh?
[D] This is upsetting.
[D] Ah! [E] Arin.
[D] Something poured onto my legs!
[DEE LAUGHS] [D] It we- IT FEELS WET!
[E] Arin, hand.
[D] It feels wet!
[E] It's a cup.
[D] DEE, D.
Dee... You must tell me when you're handing me liquid.
I feel like we're two old men on a park bench... like losing our minds.
[A] "HUH!?"
[D] "What the hell was that guy's name?"
[A] Dude, did you drop something?
[D] "Millard Fillmore."
"Was my favorite president..." Ah.
[A] Oh my God, it's so sweet.
[D] Mm.
I'm not happy that's on my pants.
[DEE LAUGHS] [A] Why would we need sound for this?
[D] It's loud liquid.
[A] Oh, is it like fizzing?
That's a clue in and of itself.
[D] Oh, it is.
Oh, it's in the glove!
It's in the glove!!
[A] EA Sports.
It's in the glove.
[D] Ahhh.
[A] It's been a while since I've had this particular flavor... But this is what jumped out at me.
I wanna say it's Cactus Cooler.
[D] Oh, weird.
I was gonna say it was Airborne.
[A] It's one of those like super berry blast.
Like it's just, it's so much.
[D] Yeah, it tastes artificial for sure.
[E] This is strawberry seltzer water.
[A] WHAT? [D] Wow.
[D] That's crazy.
🎵 [SLOW CHILL MUSIC] 🎵 TEXT: [Guess they have nose senses at all ahaha...eh...] [E] Now we're taking your smell away.
[A] What?
[D] What?
[E] Your smell.
[D] No... [A] How are we gonna breathe?
[E] Your mouth.
[D] Yeah, through the mouth, Arin.
[A] Huh?
[D] Oh, it's so tight.
[E] You got it?
[D] Is it supposed to be so tight?
[E] You can stretch it a little bit. [A] It's gotta close your nose up.
[A] Oh my God, it is tight.
[D] What's up- Dude I know.
[E] You ready?
[A] Yeah.
[E] All right, there's a spoon.
[D] Ah.
Ah!
[A] It's got a lot of give to it.
[D] Ah, it's spicy.
It's hot.
[GRUNTING AND TASTING SOUNDS] [A] What the ⛔?
[D] I have no idea what that is.
[A] There's like no information.
[D] No.
[A] I wanna say mashed potatas.
[D] I feel like I'm scuba diving on the floor of the sea and like something odd floated into my mouth.
And now I have to guess what it was.
[A] There's nowhere else I could go.
It's just, it's mashed something.
It has to be some kind of mashed vegetable.
[D] It feels like tofu.
[A] No, no, no, it's too starchy and mealy to be tofu.
[D] Not tofu... Sorry, what is the starchy, mealy version of tofu?
[A] Tempeh?
[D] Yeah, like the spongy one?
[D] That's what it feels like to my tongue. [A] Tempeh is just beans.
[A] That's not spongy.
[D] In tempeh form I think it is.
[A] No, it's beans.
[D] You sure?
[A] Yes.
[A] It's beans and they're all mashed together into like a block.
[D] I feel like I'm back in like first grade arguing at the lunch table.
[A] It's not like stringy... [D] No, it's spongy.
[A] Like a mashed sweet potato would be.
[D] That's what I'm saying.
[A] Hold on.
[D] Check it again.
Note the sponginess while you're in there.
It's spongy, right?
I'm going to say... A sponge.
[E] It's refried beans.
[D] Whoa, really?
Beans like tempeh!
[LAUGHS FROM THE CREW] [A] That's true.
[D] Oh ye of little faith.
[A] That does not taste like refried breeds right now.
[D] Refried breeds?
[A] It's just, yeah, it doesn't.
It's bland... [D] It's bland because your nose is shut down.
[A] I know, and my tongue.
[D] Yeah.
[D] Oh, who's saying hello? [E] Spoon.
[E] Spoon.
[A] Spoon, spoon, spoon.
[D] Thank you. [E] Spoon in da bowl.
[D] In da bow.
[A] What the?
[DAN SPITS IT OUT] [DAN TONGUES THE POTATOES] [D] I believe this is some kind of corn meal.
[A] That's mashed potato.
[D] You think so?
[A] Yeah.
[D] You don't think it's some sort of mealy corn dish?
[A] No, corn would be mealier.
[D] That's what I'm saying.
It feels mealy to me.
[A] It's not that mealy though. [D] It is though.
[A] It's not like freaking grits, dude.
[D] All right. [A] This is mashed, it's smooth.
[D] Could it be mashed corn?
[A] I'm going with mashed potaters.
[D] All right, I also will say mashed potatoes, with a caveat that I believe it might be corn meal.
[E] Final answer?
[D] Mashed potatoes.
[A] Mashed potatoes.
[E] Correct.
[D] Yeaaaaaaaah!
But did you see how it was sort of mealy, like corn?
[A] It was a little mealy, but corn is way mealyer.
[D] Okay.
I was going for sort of like a high five thing and then I realized you can't see.
[A] I have no perception of what you are doing.
[E] Do not grab the cup, Dan. [D] I thought that was the high five.
[D] Oh, far creamier.
[A] It's upside down.
[D] I think it's some sort of creamed corn.
[ARIN TASTING] [A] Oh, what the 🛑?
[D] Is that a moose?
[A] What the 🛑 was that?
[D] Is that a chocolate moose of some kind?
[D] Or like a corn meal?
[CREW LAUGHS] That's so 🛑 up.
[D] I think it's chocolate pudding.
[A] It's bitter to me at the end.
[D] No, it's chocolate or vanilla.
[A] It could be vanilla, it could be strawberry. [D] It could be vanilla pudding.
[A] But it's bitter at the end.
Did you get that?
[D] I did not.
There's no bitterness at the end.
You are having a stroke.
[A] It gets bitter.
[A] I'm gonna say-- [D] Oh, it's getting bitter.
[A] Right?
[D] At the end.
[A] I told you.
[D] Yes.
Do you think maybe it's not pudding at all?
Maybe it's more of like a corn meal.
[EVERYONE LAUGHS] [D] Oh, I inhaled some.
[A] I think it is chocolate pudding.
[D] I think so too.
[A] Lock it in. [D] Dee, our answer is chocolate pudding.
[E] Correeeeect!
[D] Yeaaaaaaah!
It tastes very good.
[A] Maybe we're overthinking things, you know?
[D] I don't know.
Maybe our first instinct is the best one to do.
[A] Yeahhh.
[E] All right, we're on our last one.
[D] Ooooh man. [A] Woaaaah.
[E] Oh, sorry, sorry.
[D] Jesus Christ. [E] Sorryyy.
[D] That was like paranormal whactivity.
Whose hand am I holding?
[D] What is this? [E] Mine!
[E] I'm leading you to the floor.
[D] Oh, oh, oh.
[A] Is it a shared plate? [D] Oh got it, got it.
[D] Okay.
[E] Here, Arin, here for you.
[D] It's like this hand- this is not food, it's a hand.
[A] What is this? [E] And then on the plate, put it in your mouth.
[D] Oh my God. [E] We just got everything on it.
[A] Just this?
[DEE LAUGHING] [A] Wait.
[E] You just dumped it on the table.
[A] I didn't know there was a stack of things.
Can you restack me?
[D] This is different.
This is not pudding.
[A] We're good?
[E] Yeah but, Dan did you-- [CREW LAUGHS] [E] You guys... [A] Is mine good? [D] Someone hit my plate.
[E] Yes, Arin.
[ARIN AND DEE LAUGHING] [E] Dan, I don't think you got all of it.
[D] No?
Oh, that's cheese.
[A] That's like a Ritz cracker with cheese on it.
[D] There is.
[D] That's not Ritz, that's a club cracker.
[A] Club cracker?
[D] The rectangular ones?
[A] Stop touching me.
[D] Sorry.
I just wanted to make sure the plate was being delivered.
[A] Uh-huh.
[CREW LAUGHS] [A] Why are you touching me?
[D] I don't know, I suddenly felt very existentially lonely.
[A] I wanna say it's like a Gouda.
It has the texture of like a harder cheese.
[D] Is it like a cornmeal?
[A] I think it's club cracker, and I think the cheese is a kind of... let's say Havarti.
[D] I'm going to say-- [A] No, it's not Havarti!
[D] I'm going to say Gouda.
[A] I'm gonna say Gouda too.
[D] Yeah, I think it's a Gouda.
[E] Half a point.
It is a club cracker.
But it is Gorgonzola.
[D] Whoaaaa.
May I remove the clip from my nose?
I'm becoming lightheaded.
[E] Yeah!
[D] Okay, sick.
[D] Did we do it?
Did we succeed?
[E] Oh yeahh. [A] Ahhh.
[D] All right! All right.
[E] Let me add up your- [A] Oh my God, the world just opened up.
[D] Wait, before you... [DAN SNIFFS] [DAN'S SIGH OF RELIEF] [A] That's a lot of smells.
[D] Wow, yes.
[D] It's quite pungent in here. [A] Holy crap.
[A] If you liked what you saw today... I didn't see anything, so hopefully it's good.
But if you liked it, then go to patreon.com/GameGrumps where there's more.
[D] Why spend your money on food and shelter?
[A] Good point, Dan.
[D] Am I looking at a camera?
[E] Nope.
Nope.
[D] Ah... [DAN HISSES] [A] Ah, ooh.
Oh my God.
[D] It's like we're filming this on the surface of the sun.
[A] Is this usually what it looks like?
[D] Which is the way to do these?
[A] And why is it bright in here?
I think it's however you feel good.
[D] None of it feels good.
[A] I did the other way, so it goes down the nose.
[A] Yeah, that looks right.
[D] Did we get more than 10 points?
[E] You got nine and a half.
[D] Ohhhhhhhhhhhh!
[A] What?
[LAUGHS FROM THE CREW] [D] Ugh... The half was when I said the right thing and you were like, "No, it's not beans, 🚧 you."
[A] You were saying tempeh.
[A] That's not refried beans. [D] That's a type of beans, I think.
[A] There's no way, there was no way.
The moment I took this off, I could smell the gorgonzola.
[D] Yeah.
[E] That's crazy.
[A] But when it was not in, it was just cheese.
It was like barely cheese because of this 🤬 berry 💩.
You should be a radio DJ.
[IMITATES NASILY RADIO DJS] [D] "That was Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan."
[IMITATES NASILY RADIO DJS] [D] "Danny and the Raptor here, it's 2:35 in the morning, at W-G-R-Bimp..." I was trying to... [DAN AND DEE LAUGH] [A] W-E-R-Pimp?
[LAUGHS FROM EVERYONE] [D] "This is the entirety of Pink Floyd's, Dark Side of the Moon..." "We'll be right back after this commercial sponsor."
[A] "From Master Man."
[EVERYONE LAUGHS] Who's the sponsor?
[D] "Master Ma..." [ARIN LAUGHS] 🎵 [CHILL 10MPH OUTRO THEME] 🎵 TEXT: [feel the love of friendship even in the darkest of tastings.]
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