My Foodie Call

Could you taste the difference?

So one of the My Foodie Call kids complains because I buy the Whole Grain Goldfish.

“Why can’t you buy the normal kind?” 

I hear this a lot.

I argue with him incessantly that both Goldfish crackers really are the same. They taste the same and Whole Grain Goldfish are still plenty junky, promise.

Yes,  I fully acknowledge on this blog, that yes Whole Grain Goldfish are NOT good for you. Not healthy.

But in this fast food world, when a mom is to conform, what is a mom to do??

Pick the lesser of two evils.

The Whole Grain Goldfish.

Could you tell which is regular…

and which is whole grain based on taste?

Decided to stop this long-standing argument  in its tracks and conduct an experiment. Enough of the complaining and let’s see if they really taste so different, shall we?

Super top-secret Goldfish cracker bowls. Mr. Foodie Call pointed out that I should not have let people see the actual crackers. True. I never said my test wasn’t flawed.

After trying one from each bowl, I told them to write down which cracker is REGULAR: 1 or 2.

Let’s see how well they do…

The testing began. 

We even had a neighborhood boy over who only eats regular and swears he’ll know the difference.

Even Mr. Foodie Call jumped on the taste test…

and he did the back and forth thing several times. Serious stuff.

The votes are in.

Remember they are supposed to write down which number they think is “regular”. If you look closely, the top two votes are for #1 as the regular cracker and the bottom votes claim that it’s number #2.

Who is right?

Number 1 is the regular Goldfish cracker. Hmm…

What does this mean?

That  the two boys bottom votes picked the wrong Goldfish and did not know the difference.

Smirk.

However…there is more to this story.

Although I did admit that Whole Grain Goldfish are hardly healthy, check this out…

Upon closer inspection I couldn’t believe that there was pretty much zero difference in the nutritional content of the two. Whole grain has a tad more fiber. Hmm. Looks like I got played as well. 

Not caring. A little more fiber is better than nothing. Whole grain it is.