BubbleMonkey

I haven’t tried those but the generic ones that were bbq flavor back in the 90s were made from flour and water and probably nothing else, and crumbled on bite into nasty wheat sand.

The seasonings and what have you are often tested by the npd crowd

This is the “at some stage” portion, I assume (tho I don’t understand the lingo you are using tbh)

Dry foods are bland and flavorless kibbles without the flavor coating, often using the same meal for multiple lines, so you just test the coating. But other products don’t have that luxury, like wet foods and treats that have soft core or whatever.

Obviously nobody is consuming it as a diet, but they do test it :)

https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/food-facts/food-careers/food-taster3.htm

https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephenlaconte/i-just-found-out-that-dog-food-gets-taste-tested-by-humans

https://www.merieuxnutrisciences.com/na/sensory-and-consumer-testing-of-pet-food/

Being wrong is just the first step to being right. The biggest thing is realizing there’s something to learn waiting for you, but you never learn if you don’t risk being wrong and making mistakes. (I promise I’m not AI, despite that sounding like a generic platitude)

My childhood didn’t teach me that (woof..), learning about great successes did. They all have a series of fuckups along the way but kept going. Mostly because they came from rich families and had the luxury to fail, but let’s not dwell on circumstances..

Ships can absolutely be beached without being up on shore though. So in the water.

Because they are super heavy and can thus run aground further out than a small boat might. They are beached, meaning they are stuck in sand of a beach, but they aren’t on the beach, and are wholly within the water. Because that definition had “especially” and not “only”, thus it can go out further than what we would traditionally label as a beach between high and low tide.

Imagine if you will the absolute carnage wrought by your sugar-loving gut biome once you take that first dump on this pbj planet (assuming you don’t sink in).

How long do you think you’ve got before the whole thing spoils and you die of sepsis from living in rot? Think you could outrun it on a daily basis to stay alive?

You can just gnaw on dog treats if you want. Like nobody is stopping you. My parents tried and failed many many years ago, but the sandy texture of the treats they bought was a major turnoff for me, so no need fam. If dentabones or whatever had been a thing back then I might have a different story..

Fun fact; most pet foods and treats are tested at some stage by humans for flavor, because animals can’t really give proper critique. So someone, somewhere, has probably already eaten them.

Honestly I enjoy when I get all riled up and prove myself wrong before I post whatever bullshit I was going to write. Because I learn something and did a lot of work for it so I won’t make that mistake again.

What bugs the fuck out of me is when I’m right and I know it for a fact.. but I can’t find the right evidence because I can’t remember the right string of words to get through SEO hell, and there’s nothing to dispute it, but it’s just hard to find. And then I get bored looking and give up even replying.

If you are on a planet made of them would you not also be required to consume them? So really that’s just hard-mode for the question.

Same, honestly. You have to make sure it works and you don’t really think to cover it, and even if you did you don’t really know where..

Surprises of that sort aren’t really the problem, tho that would be.. wild.

The intentional abuse of the devices would be the problem, as would unintentional misuse (eg they are in the wrong position and it misses entirely, or they don’t know what it is and mess with the controls while standing in front of it).

Imagine the filth in your average public restroom.

Now imagine if they were all designed with powerful fountains that spray water up and out of the device if not intercepted by an anus.

I’m pretty sure “this is why we can’t have nice things” is true in this case, just pre-emptively.