Let's Play Deductions!

[Shadow Dweller]

Yes, yes, yes.

Yes

No

No

No

[Van Buren Supernova]

Some sort of fungal biomass? Mycoprotein processes?

Does it have anything to do with fermentation?

Alkaline fermentation?

 

Yes, yes, yes.

Yes

 

Eh?

Those are pretty much the answer right then. Can't be more specific.

I win!

I am going out for a long ride to celebrate. Yay!

Laterz.

[Shadow Dweller]

Don't celebrate now, you didn't tell me the name of the mysterious sponge yet :p

[Arcadia]

I don't even know what any of those words mean. And I thought you said there was no sponge???

 

It still sounds like kimchi to me. Kimchi on a sponge with natto on top.

 

[Shadow Dweller]

It is not a real sponge because it stored liquid inside the organisms instead of the pores between them. But as whole it have sponge-like feel if you press against it.

[Arcadia]

Is it a wkxsyzz from planet Gryuxxxyz?

[Shadow Dweller]

Their diplomatic envoy

[Van Buren Supernova]

Don't celebrate now, you didn't tell me the name of the mysterious sponge yet :P

 

Because I don't know! 

 

Gah...gah.... gah.......  .

Maybe I should find out a way to create ammonia and sulfur stink-bombs for you. Address, please.

 

Tell me it's SCP, single cell protein created using microbes for food or meat substitute, something like quorn or thua-nao? or dawadawa? kinema? torutein? fusarium venetatum?

[Shadow Dweller]

221b, Baker Street, London << my secret lair ^.^

 

A big nope ^^

[Van Buren Supernova]

Oh..

Why don't you ask the curly man there to guess what you have? :P He is certainly much smarter than me.

I'm certain I have nothing else on my sleeve, or brain, and I have a lot of tasks at hand to finish, and I really don't know what that is, and whatever it is, it makes me hungry, but I hate to imagine the smell, and I swear I was never exposed to any knowledge about this, and as you can see I have exhausted everything I have, a good sleep and a good meal may restore my perseverance but are you sure you want to keep going because I like you less and less :P, I can continue typing in one long bloody sentence but I need to hit the road again.

[Arcadia]

[Van Buren Supernova]

[Shadow Dweller]

*snort* Ok ok.... the 'sponge' was a block of tempeh.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Whuattt. But it doesn't look like that. I like tempeh, and wanted to guess it alongside other dawadawa etc but omitted it because for what I know tempeh comes in thicker block with prominent soy texture and fungi appearance.

 

I don't remember tempeh smells like ammonia and sulfur, and I think I guess soy been before?

 

And that is perfectly edible.

[Shadow Dweller]

That what it could be if you let the fermentation process goes too far, a smelly, puffy something that fits to tease SHERLOCKians with.

[Van Buren Supernova]

I'm quite familiar with tempeh, as I roamed Asia quite a lot and my friend loves it, so I always tried to get some for her. I bought it raw, I tried it fried, cooked in gravy, soup or even crisps or in form of chips. I also seen the traditional making process that looks very different with what you have.

 

The first thing associated with tempeh, is, it's a food. It's bloody food and it's edible. That is the main purpose of it as far as I know.

 

But the clues contradicted it:

I'd say that it is inedible (not desperate enough to eat it, thank you).

I said that I won't eat it, not that it is inedible.

Believe me, the only things that would find this edible are bacterias, earthworms and various other creepy-crawly 'recyclers'.

I would think the clue should be objective about whether it's edible or not, it's amended the second time but third time it's back to unedible...

 

Man-made in the sense that it needs someone's help to form that particular shape.

It doesn't need to be in that particular shape to be what it is.

 

My guess:

Fermented food, soybean? Something you don't like but it's actually food? There are stinky food.

And soybean had been mentioned.

 

Unless you mean something else, tempe to food and soybean is like Sherlock to smart and rude.

 

Eta: well, I would say nice tease is different with wrong clues. Wrong clues will never lead to correct answer.

[Shadow Dweller]

That's false equivalency, VBS.

 

Try it yourself, let the fermentation process goes far enough until what you have is a mass of fungus and only little bits of soybean left. If you still find in yourself desire to eat it then congratulations, you just started a new trend of food.

[Arcadia]

[Van Buren Supernova]

Yep. That makes sense.

 

But then don't you think that the answer should be spoiled/failed tempeh process.

 

And the clues should be 'used to be/supposed to be edible'.

 

And fermented food or soybean should get a yes.

 

 

Without that the game can continue forever without conclusion since correct or probable trails had been eliminated.

Just saying.

 

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

[Shadow Dweller]

It is edible, for the little recyclers that populates the soil and my compost bin. We never say that it is edible for human beings, aren't we? It was a block of tempeh, past tense.

 

I admit that I did some subtle steering to certain directions but I let you two to form your own conclusions, which is as long as it serves my purpose then I don't see the need to interfere.

[Arcadia]

[Van Buren Supernova]

I maintain that you gave wrong or the very least misleading clues that are too significant with tampering the deduction.

 

But I see you don't agree, so I'd stop trying. It's done anyway.

 

So I just steal Arcadia's bunny.

[Shadow Dweller]

*Plants some colourful flowers on top of the grave*

 

*blinks innocently* I warned you before to never think all my jokes here is just for laugh.

 

So, who's next with a new brain-teaser?

[Arcadia]

[Van Buren Supernova]

Anyone ready to crack some heads here again?