The art of eating while blindfolded

Published: 8:13PM Wednesday November 11, 2009 Source: Close Up

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If you can't see what you're eating can you still taste your food properly?

Theoretically your sense of taste should be even more finely attuned.

At Clooneys in Auckland on Tuesday night eighty people sat down to dine in the dark, completely blindfolded.

They realised their tastebuds were entirely unreliable without the benefit of sight. In fact some had trouble even getting food in their mouths.

Dining in the dark is a bit of a hot concept overseas.

Mark went along to put his own tastebuds to the test.

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