Oh yeah, this exists. Hehehe…

Ah!!! I’m like two free food updates behind! I went to Skimmer and Amy Gutman’s house and they were both cool. But I can’t blog about them now because I’m actually going to do homework tonight! See you soon!

I don’t really know what Skimmer is, but I know that if you’re a sophomore or junior, you can get free food at College Green from 5-7. And a hot air balloon ride maybe! So go do it! I’ll probably blog tonight.

Travesty…

Hello, gang. I went to the Penn Park yesterday to partake in the free food. It was good stuff.

It’s actually pretty close to campus (I guess it’s technically on campus now, but you know what I mean). You just have to walk over a cool bridge past the football stadium. I should know the name of the football stadium, but I’m not one of them sports folk.

They had hot dogs, burgers, veggie burgers, chips, pretzels, sodas, water bottles, and a lame cover band that played some Beatles, some Stevie Wonder, and some Chili Peppers. The hot dog and burger I had were really good. And the pretzel.

But I had the horrible experience of watching my free food correspondent in the field put ketchup on her hot dog. I’ll probably upload a picture of our hot dogs next to each other so you can observe how much better mine is. No one in their right mind puts ketchup on a hot dog. If you ask for ketchup on a hot dog in Chicago they will either refuse, make you put it on yourself with ketchup packets, or just harshly judge you.

But Penn Park is definitely a nice addition to Penn. I approve, AGutt! They also gave me a free t-shirt!

Reference, anyone? Okay, whatever. So I did science on Monday! My friend Katie had to find someone to do a test on for her psychology class, and I volunteered to be the guinea pig when I heard what the test would entail. I would take part in a Pepsi vs. Coke taste test!

I’ve seriously wanted to do one of these for years. I was a skilled and experienced taster of Pepsi and Coke, I told her. After all, everyone knows that Pepsi tastes much fruitier than Coke. It would be easy pickings, I claimed. So after class on Monday, I went over to her apartment and put on a blindfold. I was so excited about it that she astutely called me weird. But it was for science!

The testing began. I had to take a sip of a cola, rinse my mouth with water, take another sip, more water, and so on until I had taken 10 sips of cola. Now, a few things need to be made clear about this:

1) I have recently switched to drinking only diet soda. So I felt kind of guilty about having regular soda, and I wasn’t quite prepared for how think and sugary it would be compared to what I’ve now gotten used to.

2) The “sips” I took were like two whole swallows each. So by the end of that phase of the experiment I was grotesquely full and sick of sugar. Plus I was burping like a madman. I had also just eaten lunch about an hour or two earlier.

So at first, I was all confident in my abilities. “Oh yeah!” I exclaimed, “I know exactly which of these is Pepsi! It’s the fruity one!” And if I know anything from doing a lifetime of theatre, it is fruitiness. But try telling the difference after you’re constantly switching back and forth and having a ton of soda with very little in between time and not having the water erase the memory of the last taste well enough and AHH!! It was really hard. By the end I was just tasting syrup and nothing else. And that was only part 1!

At that point I was done with cola for life. But alas, science was not through with me yet. There was a part 2 to this madness. I then went through four sessions of trying three drinks in a row. One of the three would be different than the others. I didn’t have to know which was coke and which was Pepsi, just which was different. So that was 12 more drinks of soda on top of the 10 before. Add 9 drinks of water in round one and 3 in round two. So 22 drinks of cola and 12 drinks of water. 34 drinks of substance. Not only can I do science, but I can do math too.

My results were pitiful. I got 4 out of the 10 drinks right in round one, and 2 out of the 4 in round two. So at least I beat randomness in round two, which would have been 1.33 correct out of 4. But yeah, I sucked at it.

I’m sure you’re sitting there all smugly thinking, “I can do it! You’re just a pawn!” But you’re wrong! My roommate said the same thing, so I gave her a very unscientific taste test of 3 drinks of each cola, and she only got 4 of the 6 right. It’s harder than you think.

In the end, neither Katie nor her roommate (I think I just used “nor” correctly) wanted the extra Coke and Pepsi she had bought for science, so I took it home. Free Beverage at Penn! But I try to only drink diet these days, so now I have all this extra cola I’m not sure I want. Oh well. Science was done! And now I never want cola again.

Hey guys. I’ve been really busy lately, so I haven’t been able to post about some free food experiences I’ve had lately. Right now I’ll mention that Penn Singers has a new newbie class! Yay Penn Singers! We had free pizza when we let them in, and all was well. It was yet another free meal that is making me think I should dramatically reduce my meal plan this semester. I’m getting like 4 free meals a week so far. It may cool down with time, but I’m not sure that it will. The whole reason I started this blog was because I had an idea that maybe I could spend 30 days eating only free food. I’ve since decided that that wouldn’t be practical with my schedule, but I really do think it would be possible for someone with no commitments outside of class.

Soon to come will be a post about a recent science experiment I did in the name of free food. It’s exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for when I set out to have bizarre free food experiences, and hopefully you’ll enjoy it. For science!

Free pastries at Penn

This morn I received an email from my RA notifying me of free pastries in the lounge of my floor. I’m not telling you where that is, because you’re not allowed to eat our pastries! I had a brownie with chocolate chips on top, and it was delectable.

I’m back telling you about another free food event after it’s too late for you to go! I should start announcing things in advance since everyone asks me too.

TAC-e (the theatre arts council) had a free show for freshmen today with free pizza at 2. Afterwards there was a talkback where the freshmen could ask questions about student theatre at penn. It was kind of awesome. I should have blogged about it before, because I worked on it and wanted you to go. Whoops.

But wait!!!! There is another show tonight! It is at 8, and it’s still free for freshmen! $5 for the rest. No pizza or talkback now, but the show still rocks. It’s called All in the Timing. It’s in the iron gate theatre on 37th and chestnut at 8. It’s a comedy and funny. Do it.