The Chuck That is Norris asks: "How is it that when you put soap next to food, it permeates the plastic that the food is wrapped in and makes it taste like soap?"
Missed a Show? [piff] No, we still love you. We’re just having financial problems, and we’re waiting for our piece of the bailout. The Chuck that is Norris seriously, that’s his user name. The real Chuck Norris is one of our fans. I hope he didn’t see that other episode we made about him.
“I had a question about soap. I recently ate a crunch bar that tasted like Irish Spring. How is it that when you put soap next to food, it permeates the plastic that the food is wrapped in and makes it taste like soap?”
Well, Chuck, I have a question of my own. Why are you keeping candy next to your soap? I mean, is it for that oh, so important, mid-shower snack? Or, do you have a unique way of storing things at your house? Some of that soap could have rubbed off on your hands, and even on the wrapper, I mean on the candy bar. Whatever. Maybe all three.
You see, whether it’s on your hands or on the actual food. As long as you’re smelling it, you’re tasting it. Taste has a lot to do with smell. In fact, according to Exploratorium.org, approximately 80-90% of what we perceive as taste is actually due to the sense of smell. This is why you don’t eat and potty at the same time. I have the same problem with bananas on long road trips. After a few days, everything in the cooler tastes like banana no matter how much plastic or air-tight sealed space is around it. And if I wanted that, I’d just have brought a bunch of bananas. Banana hamburgers.
Goat cheese. Smells like a goat. Tastes like a goat. Well, I mean it tastes the way a goat smells anyway. I’ve never actually tasted a goat. I don’t plan on it. Unless goat cheese counts. In which case, I have.
Sorry. Back to the important stuff. No more food in the bathroom. It’s possible that the soap didn’t have to rub off. You might have only gotten a whiff of it before biting into that crunch bar. And a whiff is all you need. I mean, that Irish Spring is some powerful stuff. Their own website says, it’s not just any bar of soap, it’s the bar of soap the smells strong and clean. Like a GUY, a fresh clean GUY
Let’s try and keep this from ever happening again. Chuck from now on remember, candy bars go into the kitchen cupboard and soap goes in the bathroom. And you eat in the kitchen and you DON’T in the bathroom. Trust me, don’t take food into the bathroom EVER. Not only does it ruin the experience, it kind of ruins the food. It just doesn’t taste the same. I will never eat microwave popcorn again due to a bathroom experience.
Normally that’d be the end of the show. Except camera guy wants me to go off on some wacky quacky medicine soapy taste conspiracy theory tangent.
Tangent!
A few years ago he noticed his food started to tasting soapy, especially sugary foods like cake, and he thought that maybe he wasn’t washing his dishes correctly but the odd thing was that the food tasted fine to everyone else. His wife said that it maybe it was due to a vitamin deficiency and since Camera Guy promised to ALWAYS love, honor, and obey, he swallowed his pride and some multivitamins. The next day the same cake tasted great! It happened one other time since then, and he stopped taking his vitamins because, you know, getting him to obey consistently, that’s really the problem, and the same solution worked. You take the vitamins and the food tastes good again. Now we’ve scoured the internet looking for a link between soapy tasting sugary foods and vitamins and can’t find anything. Hence the quack medicine. But there are hints that it could be linked to vitamin A. We just don’t know until Camera Guy’s taste buds go nuts again and we can experiment on him some more.
So, the moral of the story is, separate your food from your cleaning products, and if your paranoid and everything starts tasting soapy, well you might want to take your vitamins. Actually it might be a good idea to take vitamins anyway.
[sniff] Irish Spring Irish Spring Irish Spring. Smells like a guy. Like a really clean guy.
Transcribed by: Karla W.
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The Perspicacious Loris
Scoured the internet... I'm lovin' it!The Perspicacious Loris
Banana hamburgers... that would be very, um... different.haggisknower
Holy Crap! (ooooooohhhh) I took a whiff of almonds then had a mint- it tasted slightly of soap! ODNiya
I had my mouth washed out wish soap a few times as a kid as long as you hold your ...AngInAmerica
Guy behind the camera needs vitamin A??? Just take three doses of Airborne!!! =Dimroycj
A Banana Hamburger - easier to swallow than a Banana Hammock... um, perhaps swallow was a poor choice of words ...The Brothers Winn
We should probably explain more too Chuck. I'm sure there is some molecular chemical thing going on with the perfume ...TheChuckthatisNorris
Well, I suppose I might explain a bit more. The crunch bar was stored by my grandmother in the ...Kel [22]
OK, I don't know if it's paranoia or my subconscious acting up or a vitamin deficiency, but I have now ...ItzMeRon
This show is off the chain! I am glad I stumbled on your videos.OldGuy41
do we get to input on what to experiment with on camera guy?Soul Sister [22]
See, my bathroom is so huge that I eat in it sometime when I'm chatting with my roommates, or actually ...AngInAmerica
I think cilantro tastes like soap - in the kitchen, all the time...even though I take a multivitamin.designertoxophilite[22] [22]
Woo Hoo your back. Oddly enough I had a cup of tea (how british is that?) anyway, I had a ...steph {207}
Random video. Reminded me of the orange juice one because you didn't tell me anything that I ought to know ...imgriff11
I think eating while doing your business in the bathroom is so counterproductive. It's just as weird as talking on ...socalcutie82 [22]
My husband uses Irish Spring and I have noticed that the smell does tend to "spread" only because it's so ...Kel [22]
I once stored tissues next to my roommate's very very scented soap, and though both were in plastic, the tissues ...Meandering {207}
Instead of the bailout how about we tip these guys for great work! How's that getting a TV gig ...jacob
You're making a big mistake not eating goat. It's probably one of the tastiest meats out there (I first ...Jennifer McKenzie
I'd love to know which vitamin deficiency would cause "soapy tasting cake". Of course, the taste buds are interesting ...Drecon [22]
I have the same with garlic... whenever I keep our homemade garlic-sauce (with lots, I mean LOTS of garlic) in ...The Brothers Winn
Mom never washed his mouth out with soap. He was an angel.Curtis [22]
So, when you were a kid and your mom washed your mouth out with soap, what did it taste like?Nospinplease
YOUR BACK!!! equals D! I definitly know this, in a lot of food. With it tasting like mint or bananas. ...Illuminate
I became a member just so I could write a comment on this video. And now I can move that ...pkw
Please- don't accept your piece of the bailout. I think I wouldn't want to watch if you did. ...