Comments on: Eat your own dog food pâté http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/05/04/eat-your-own-dog-food-pate/ EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:05:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dog Food http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/05/04/eat-your-own-dog-food-pate/comment-page-1/#comment-29587 Dog Food Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:40:40 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1849#comment-29587 Now that's one to remember! @Anonymous: I agree. Who were the tasters? I'd like to think I could spot the difference pretty clearly, but maybe not. Dog food keeps getting better with more high-end ingredients so who knows. Now that’s one to remember! @Anonymous: I agree. Who were the tasters? I’d like to think I could spot the difference pretty clearly, but maybe not. Dog food keeps getting better with more high-end ingredients so who knows.

]]> By: Anonymous http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/05/04/eat-your-own-dog-food-pate/comment-page-1/#comment-29390 Anonymous Tue, 05 May 2009 12:47:01 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1849#comment-29390 Hm, who were the test subjects, and what kind of pate? Those would be big questions... the pate sold down at the local Giant or Food Shoppers Warehouse is probably in reality little better than the dog food, its more of a gourmet item. Also, perhaps the people have less than refined palettes or had never had pate and were relying completely on texture when gauging things. They did something like this with a moderately priced champagne and don perignon, and people couldn't tell the difference. Or take beer for example. Who here liked beer the first time they tried it, vs enjoys the flavor now and can appreciate the difference between budweiser and a belgian ale? Still, its always funny to see how much perception influences us; obviously if you're one of those people who isn't a wine snob, it'd be a good thing to know shelling out an extra $100 will get you nothing more than the ability to be a regular snob by saying (or thinking) "I spent over $100 on this" Hm, who were the test subjects, and what kind of pate? Those would be big questions… the pate sold down at the local Giant or Food Shoppers Warehouse is probably in reality little better than the dog food, its more of a gourmet item. Also, perhaps the people have less than refined palettes or had never had pate and were relying completely on texture when gauging things.

They did something like this with a moderately priced champagne and don perignon, and people couldn’t tell the difference. Or take beer for example. Who here liked beer the first time they tried it, vs enjoys the flavor now and can appreciate the difference between budweiser and a belgian ale?

Still, its always funny to see how much perception influences us; obviously if you’re one of those people who isn’t a wine snob, it’d be a good thing to know shelling out an extra $100 will get you nothing more than the ability to be a regular snob by saying (or thinking) “I spent over $100 on this”

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