In the hall of the mountain king, betrayal never tasted so sour
April 7, 2014 7:24 AM Subscribe
Early on there's a kid giving a side-eye to the camera with this look that absolutely says, "okay, are you fucking with me here?"
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:35 AM on April 7, 2014 [4 favorites]
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:35 AM on April 7, 2014 [4 favorites]
I like that the individual responses varied from 0 to 10. Nice mix.
posted by MtDewd at 7:38 AM on April 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by MtDewd at 7:38 AM on April 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
I like how the South and East Asian kids were like, "Bring it! That's the good stuff!"
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 7:47 AM on April 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 7:47 AM on April 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
Wait til I post my "poking babies with needles" video.
posted by shothotbot at 7:50 AM on April 7, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by shothotbot at 7:50 AM on April 7, 2014 [2 favorites]
In the same genre. I'd swear I saw that first on MeFi but I can't find the corresponding post.
posted by XMLicious at 7:50 AM on April 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by XMLicious at 7:50 AM on April 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
My grandmother's been feeding lemons to the babies in our family forever. The Lemon Test is a bit of family lore, but no one's really sure what it means or what the reaction says about the baby's personality or temperament. With a new great-grandbaby recently, the subject came up and we asked her about it. What's the point? "No point," she said. "I just think it's funny."
Bubbie's been straight trolling babies for decades.
posted by yellowbinder at 7:54 AM on April 7, 2014 [44 favorites]
Bubbie's been straight trolling babies for decades.
posted by yellowbinder at 7:54 AM on April 7, 2014 [44 favorites]
In the same genre. yt I'd swear I saw that first on MeFi but I can't find the corresponding post.
Olives contain multitudes, apparently.
posted by sparklemotion at 8:22 AM on April 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
Olives contain multitudes, apparently.
posted by sparklemotion at 8:22 AM on April 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
I just discovered this YT-channel that specializes in similar "cute babiy videos", so thereyougo
posted by growabrain at 8:24 AM on April 7, 2014
posted by growabrain at 8:24 AM on April 7, 2014
My daughters and granddaughter would eat lemons without any problem until about a year. Then they would perceive the sourness and react to it. Before then, they may as well have been eating oranges.
posted by Mental Wimp at 9:06 AM on April 7, 2014
posted by Mental Wimp at 9:06 AM on April 7, 2014
What I wouldn't do for a time machine to get a pic of Space Kitten and her first lemon cookie.
posted by Space Kitty at 10:13 AM on April 7, 2014
posted by Space Kitty at 10:13 AM on April 7, 2014
For those of us who are fond of reaction videos featuring the other (four-legged, furry) kind of babies: dogs vs. citrus.
posted by divined by radio at 11:14 AM on April 7, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by divined by radio at 11:14 AM on April 7, 2014 [3 favorites]
What I wouldn't do for a time machine to get a pic of Space Kitten and her first lemon cookie.
Similarly, what I wouldn't give to resee the "O-face" on my nephew after we gave him a sip of a milk shake for the first time, followed by the equally classic, "you've been holding this out on me for all these months" evil look that followed it.
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 12:42 PM on April 7, 2014 [3 favorites]
Similarly, what I wouldn't give to resee the "O-face" on my nephew after we gave him a sip of a milk shake for the first time, followed by the equally classic, "you've been holding this out on me for all these months" evil look that followed it.
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 12:42 PM on April 7, 2014 [3 favorites]
I saw another compilation on this a while back, and remember that it made me think about the human condition long and hard. It wasn't a studio-arranged thing, just someone stitching together home- and cell-phone videos of infants reacting to their first taste of lemon.
I mean, it seems to be one of the great universals. I still have photographs of my baby sister's first Lemon; we didn't have portable cameras then. This video illustrates certain things we all share as human beings, no matter what race, nationality, or credo:
1. That face with a few variations we make as babies when our parents confront our unsuspecting, trusting tastebuds with lemon for the first time (my sister's was a variant of squeeze eyes/put tip of the tongue out), which can be translated roughly as "What the [concept baby has idea of] is this [concept baby has no word for]" into adult language;
2. How horrible we all are because we all give our babies lemons for the first time for the express purpose of getting that reaction (and, in this day and age, recording it and putting it out on the Internets for all humanity to see---at least my sister's "first lemon face" only exists in the hardcopy family album, and mine wasn't recorded as far as know);
3. (For some of us) How we, as babies, may want more of that [concept baby has no word for] anyway (my sister reached for the second spoonful of lemon juice);
4. How we, again as babies, one and all laugh along with the adults in the situation who are laughing at our lemon-faces.
One and all, sub-Saharan or Finn, we seem to share an urge to a) feed our unsuspecting infant children citrus fruit, and b) point, laugh, and record the reaction as appropriate, and c) now in the Time of the Internets, post the video on YouTube for all of humanity to point and laugh along.
It makes one wonder, it does.
posted by seyirci at 1:30 PM on April 7, 2014 [2 favorites]
I mean, it seems to be one of the great universals. I still have photographs of my baby sister's first Lemon; we didn't have portable cameras then. This video illustrates certain things we all share as human beings, no matter what race, nationality, or credo:
1. That face with a few variations we make as babies when our parents confront our unsuspecting, trusting tastebuds with lemon for the first time (my sister's was a variant of squeeze eyes/put tip of the tongue out), which can be translated roughly as "What the [concept baby has idea of] is this [concept baby has no word for]" into adult language;
2. How horrible we all are because we all give our babies lemons for the first time for the express purpose of getting that reaction (and, in this day and age, recording it and putting it out on the Internets for all humanity to see---at least my sister's "first lemon face" only exists in the hardcopy family album, and mine wasn't recorded as far as know);
3. (For some of us) How we, as babies, may want more of that [concept baby has no word for] anyway (my sister reached for the second spoonful of lemon juice);
4. How we, again as babies, one and all laugh along with the adults in the situation who are laughing at our lemon-faces.
One and all, sub-Saharan or Finn, we seem to share an urge to a) feed our unsuspecting infant children citrus fruit, and b) point, laugh, and record the reaction as appropriate, and c) now in the Time of the Internets, post the video on YouTube for all of humanity to point and laugh along.
It makes one wonder, it does.
posted by seyirci at 1:30 PM on April 7, 2014 [2 favorites]
The next time someone tries to tell you that all of reality is determined by language, remember this
posted by thelonius at 1:57 PM on April 7, 2014
posted by thelonius at 1:57 PM on April 7, 2014
Seyirci, maybe it teaches the infant that trying new crazy things is fun and exciting and full of laughter. Or maybe it just teaches us to be use our senses and be careful when people offer us things (a valuable skill).
posted by HMSSM at 10:31 PM on April 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by HMSSM at 10:31 PM on April 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
I'd swear I saw that first on MeFi but I can't find the corresponding post.
Yes, you did see First Taste on MetaFilter.
posted by unliteral at 11:05 PM on April 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
Yes, you did see First Taste on MetaFilter.
posted by unliteral at 11:05 PM on April 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
...and of course I'd searched for "first tasting" instead of "first taste". Should've used a Google site-specific search, I guess.
posted by XMLicious at 12:31 AM on April 8, 2014
posted by XMLicious at 12:31 AM on April 8, 2014
My kid was another who loved lemons as a baby. She'd still sometimes pucker and do a whole-body shimmy, but she kept going back for more. She ate pretty much everything, the more strongly flavoured, the better - olives, pickles, stuff with lots of chilies in... Until she was three. Then we hit chicken fingers, cheese sticks, and applesauce territory, from which she started emerging maybe ten years later. Fifteen. Something like that.
posted by you must supply a verb at 5:31 AM on April 8, 2014
posted by you must supply a verb at 5:31 AM on April 8, 2014
The video left out what happened after they rubbed their eyes with their little lemon juicy fingers.
posted by mosessis at 4:56 PM on April 8, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by mosessis at 4:56 PM on April 8, 2014 [1 favorite]
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