Look man, I don't want to say you wasted your time, but this might be the worst buffet I've ever seen.
Welcome to the Rogue's Thanksgiving.
It's like the cinnamon challenge
Period. period. The Modern Rogue eats miracle fruit.
We have something today that is going to make all of these items on our table absolutely delicious
Whatever this is it must be literally miraculous. I suspect it's made of a substance called Miraculin.
[that] is the glycoprotein in synspalum doncificum
or the
Miracle Berry fruit which is a plant that originates in West Africa. From what little I've read it looks like the miraculin binds to certain
parts of your tongue that blocks out stuff like bitter and sour tastes. Exactly.
So it makes sour things and acidy tasting things like lemons or vinegar
taste sweet. So what I read was back in the 1970s
they were looking at this as an artificial sweetener, something that would make bitter foods more palatable
but there was some breakdown with trade. As I understand it the additive got classified as an actual food additive and
That created all sorts of hoops that they needed to jump through with the FDA and the company that was trying to push it forward
Went bankrupt. When I first read about this it sounded to me like a psychotropic drug or something. This is not a drug.
This is a food additive. Correct. It is
"Generally accepted as safe". That's actually a rating from the FDA. "Generally accepted as safe"
Made me a little nervous. Okay. Yeah, I would never get on a roller coaster
that is rated as "Generally accepted as safe". People don't even really know exactly how the miracle fruit works. Oh
Generally safe.
Generally believed it to be safe, okay fine.
So if we're gonna be scientific about this, it seems like we have to eat these before the miracle fruit
and then we'll find out what they taste like. Oh, wait - You're gonna make us do it without the miracle Berry? Yes, yes, yes. Eat!
It's not as ba - sour - it's not as bad as you think going into it. It's the after pangs.
That's better. You eat the rind?
it's so gross! The tomato? Yeah, I'll be fine. In no way is this an appropriate eating service.
It's like eating cardboard basically, not much to it - it's a tomato. Yeah, you cut the onion.
I actually really love the sharpness of raw onions. Really? Gross. Yeah, I could eat this all day.
Our breath after all this - It's gonna be like a dumpster fire. Not to us - It'll smell like sweet molasses.
What are you talking about? Okay, so a red pepper, right now, by default
tastes more I wouldn't call it a bitter strain, but there's like a sharpness to it. Yeah
Now a lot of these were foods that were often recommended for food tripping. Right. Some of them
I just guessed at. So tabasco sauce part of the reason that it really pops is because the peppers
That's the capsaicin in their. Hate Tabasco sauce. Really? I hate Tabasco sauce okay
Are you putting it on the thing pong let's also put mustard on there
What are we doing? This is the worst job ever. This went totally awry. I hate mustard; I hate vinegar.
I love peppers, but I guess cheers
That's the worst
Here goat cheese. [oh] for the love. God. Why are you bringing goat cheese? This is terrible. Have a pellet. Jesus
I mean smell that I don't know oh good but [but] it tastes like rotten styrofoam
[I] will not, I will not, I will not about I'm [not] never, no no no, I seriously, I seriously hate pickles really serious. Come on, one pickle.
Yeah, you know what? For science! Oh, no, no never
Yeah, no good for you limes limes
oh
Do we get to a lime can I say for the record that is a crime that lime is no longer the default green color?
of Candy You *beep*. You *beep*. You *beep* *beep*.
You mother *beep*. You *beep*
Mustard wiping mother *beep*. Here, I'll trade you. I [look] good don't enjoy your mustard lime. You wiped mustard on this one, too
Mmm.
Hate the smell of [vinegar]. I hate vinegar based cleaning agents. I hate anything vinegar anything vinegar. I hate you vinegar
Just a sip. Don't you have shot glasses in here?
*Laughing*
This is the one thing that makes sense. Was it like super bad for you?
[the] worst of all of them was the pepper with the mustard and the Tabasco it was literally [that was gross] the worst thing ever.
I didn't like them and now
Do you like the bitter agent? It's got like hints of coffee, and it's very creamy. I don't dislike it
I just don't usually pick it. If I handed these to you and said, they're generally considered safe would you dive in? No!
Especially because you handed them to me. I'm loving this EDM. These are generally considered safe would you like some?
To instructions place it on the tongue, roll it around, do not swallow it. You want to coat all of your
Receptors for sour and bitter right. Right; it'll last for about an hour. Dude
1991 streamline pictures had a booth the San Diego comic-con. They had a giant box filled with original production cells from Akira
I got that for like 70 something bucks. Was that your first anime experience?
That was the one that I loved the deepest but it was so hard to get right
I remember driving three and a half hours to Austin at the Dhobi theater just to see a
Screening of some good anime. Anime was a mystery
It was something you actually had to hunt for back in the day
but not anymore our sponsors at crunchyroll.com forward slash rogue have set us up with a special where [you] can watch all the
Anime, you can consume dude for 30 days. 30 days, all you can eat at crunchyroll.com slash
Rogue [I] didn't even know where to begin. [I] had to call my friend Patrick [Dale] [mehandi] (?) and say like hey
What's good, and he was like just start watching attack on titan. I watched the first five minutes
I was blown away before the credits sequence even started, so I'm gonna dive through the rest of that
But we got to turn it over to the fans guide us through this experience
We got 30 days and they, they should come along with us crunchyroll.com slash
Rogue and tell us what we need [to] taste?
To get back to the anime bliss. This is my anime bliss. That's your [anime] bliss place? Mmm. Yeah, I get it anime
What's going on in there right now? We're well coated so begins our journey
Is it bad? Nope it tastes.... There's a candy taste on the back of my tongue
It's chocolatey yes, yes. I hate chocolate. [I] know I know [okay]
[we're] off to a bad start
good this somehow made you take something you already love, beer, and turn it into something you need love even less and
Also that thing is chocolate. Damn you Miracle Berry!
Let's cut to the chase everyone wants to see the lemon okay the lemon chew the whole thing up
Mmm!
It's not sour at all. [oh], hot damn is good. Yeah, that's really tasty, right
Oh wow that went from painful and a dare to instantly being sweet sweet Lemonade [I]
Mean the limes not even fair because I already love me some lime, but all of a sudden
This is like Lifesaver lime. This is lollipop [lime] this is amazing. You can [still] [taste] that it is a lime.
What's funny is I can detect the sourness mainly by smell, but the taste is is is super sweet
[yeah], that's really good now the danger with the miracle Berry is that you're eating all this acidic food like it's nothing Mm-hmm
And it can really end up kind of wrecking your stomach for a while
Yeah, but it's generally considered safe. Generally. A slice of tomato? Yeah, I'll eat a slice of tomato.
I don't I don't know if this is Gonna do anything
It still tastes like a tomato. It does have it... brings out the the tomatoness of it
It's very much the tomato experience, but everything just leans towards sweet now. We're running out of stuff that you can handle Mr.
Brushwood no hmm. Yeah, it takes the edge off. I can sit here and eat an entire onion like this
There's a big difference between getting a raw onion and a cooked onion. Oh yeah. Yeah, this tastes like a cooked onion, right?
Yeah, maybe slow down no, it's fine
I feel so sorry for your wife. If we're gonna do the pepper we have to do it the same way.
Oh yeah, no that's fair. That's fair. [why] don't you like Tabasco? [I've] never like Tabasco
It's that flavor between spicy and sweet like you can't decide where it's gonna be. Jesus Christ. Why, why do we do this?
Here we go. I don't
You're not encouraging me. It's not good. It's just not sour anymore
it does have that weird Tabasco burn to it still. The mustard is the big surprise! The mustard gives a
Weird spicy pop and you can identify it as mustard yeah?
But it doesn't have that sour tang like like at no point is my mouth flooding with Saliva
You can taste the sweetness of the tabasco sauce that really wasn't bad. It was just strange. [I] don't like some goat cheese
really creamy yeah, the
Dairy aspect seems to be counteracting the spicy aspect right yeah. I think I liked it more beforehand. Really yeah
Yeah, no it just feels like sand
I'm putting sand in my mouth. I'm not getting that at all. We just. We are down to the last two. Can we just say this was a lot of fun
You should try it. We can't you want me to do it first make you feel better don't know I'll do it
You'll make me feel like [a] little child [oh] good. I'm doing it first then
This is like a novelty drink. There is still the distinct hint of vinegar there
There's no way. But it's very - there's no way - You're still not gonna like it. Just drink it. Drink it!
Okay, there's a little bit of the aftertaste that's sideways, right?
But if you told me on that first hip that I was having some new formulation of lemon-lime
Gatorade; I would have believed you because it is acidic, and it does bring that lemony-lime flavor. It's the aftertaste
[that's] when you realize oh wait no, this is still vinegar. [I] like the first part a lot that's amazing and now the coup
De Gras oh no, no
Yes, sir
Yes, sir. No, just one one pickle slice
Don't pickle juice on me. These are dill pickle chips which are generally more sour after this they taste more like?
Bread and butter pickles you're like. Uh normally this is peanut-y poop, but this is more dog poop and like oh boy
This is still poop still poop. Why would I put poop in my mouth [dude]? You got it come on?
Are you kidding me? Do you like [it]? I don't like [it], but everything I hate about pickles is not happening right now
I am not experiencing the the pain of the saliva rush. I'm not experiencing the overwhelmingness of the pickle
It's as though my entire life somebody has screamed pickle in my ear and for the first time. They're whispering and as a result
I'm like oh pickles aren't so bad. It's just dialed down the intensity. Yeah, okay
This is a very novel experience. Right on and strangely enough pickles are often preserved in vinegar I think. You know, me and vinegar
We had our issues. We worked it out. Not you vinegar. You're one of the good ones. You know what I'm saying
I imagine that if you drank this entire thing you would be sick for a good day. would you bet me? No!
I know you would at this point. I know you would
No, no no no no no no no no no whoa whoa. Whoa. This is the thing that's happening. Oh
Oh! Oh! Ohhhhh! Nooo!
I can't it. Oh my God. You're like toothpaste. You're swishing with it. [huh] cheers. Why did we do this?