OK. Yeah. But not everything is roughly the colour, shape, consistency, feel and taste of butter. I don't pick up and eat a chocolate bar and be like, holy shit this is almost exactly like butter, I can't believe it isn't!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

the capitalist raccoon really doesn’t have the best takes

[–] Dasus 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

OK. Yeah. But not everything is roughly the colour, shape, consistency, feel and taste of butter. I don’t pick up and eat a chocolate bar and be like, holy shit this is almost exactly like butter, I can’t believe it isn’t!

Out of literally anything in the world, you picked an object that is honestly the roughly the same shape, consistency and feel, as chocolate is mostly just fat.

Like... a car isn't butter. A shoe isn't butter. From any of their qualities. Unless they're butter-coloured, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And yet you still wouldn't mistake it for butter, making it the perfect example.

[–] Dasus 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If youre blindfolded and it's frozen, you definitely could before tasting it.

A blind person sticking a spoon into slightly warm chocolate or room temperatures butter wouldn't know until they touched it with their tongue.

But like, a towel is something you would never mistake for butter unless you had had a lot of psychedelics and a fair bit of dissociatives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I dunno... "if you follow these strict temperature rules and intentionally don't use one or more of your senses, you won't believe it's not butter!" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

[–] Dasus 1 points 1 week ago

"strict temperature rules" = not room temperature? if it's hot or cold, chocolate feels the same. it's only specifically at room temp that butter is soft and chocolate isn't as soft.

If you say, keep them in the fridge, they'll be about as equally hard.

At least "might confuse them" close enough to hardness.

I just don't know why you picked an item that's essentially 95% the same as butter when you could've picked literally anything else. Like a sock. A computer. Hell even something edible. An orange. Celery. Maybe something alive? An ant? I would never confuse a live ant for butter, no matter which senses I lacked. I have however confused chocolate for butter on occasion while going to the fridge in the dark while high as balls and having had custom melted chocolate next to a dish of butter for cooking. And I have all my senses. So...