It’s one of them.

Flawed assumption. It could be both. You’ll need to eat there at least two more times to find out, assuming each trial yields 100% certainty.

Edit: I thought it should be obvious that we’re taking them absolutely at their word that they’ve properly isolated these two variables because this experiment exists inside a joke and never happened. The whole point of the joke is that the methodology is god awful and completely unrealistic, so questioning that they’ve truly isolated the variables is pointless.

Edit 2: Wait, I totally misread the experiment setup. @[email protected] is entirely correct that they’ve eliminated nothing if the experiment is totally defined by 8 bowls and 8 bouts of diarrhea. They’re still converging on at least one cause, but there could still be others. My career is ruined.

Or neither.

We’ll take them at their word that they’ve truly narrowed the variables to tuna and house sauce (i.e. they’ve eaten a meal consisting of only tuna and house sauce and gotten sick, at least one of which has always been the underlying cause, but everything else they’ve eaten has been properly eliminated, and there are no ways outside of the food truck they could’ve gotten sick), and thus the only logical options are T, HS, or T+HS. The premise of the joke already relies on completely unrealistic simplifying assumptions, so we can too.

Edit: We will not do this because it’s logically impossible based on the described experiment thus far. I’m an utter dipshit.

They said they ate 8 times and got diarrhea 8 times, the only way to be sure it’s one of them is to eat at least once without those ingredients and not get diarrhea

They said they got diarrhea 8 times over 8 bowls, but they never said how many ingredients they used. (Edit: Fuck)

Assume nine ingredients exist: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i

• Bowl 1: a + b + c + d + e + f + g + h + i: Diarrhea
• Bowl 2: a: No diarrhea
• Bowl 3: b: No diarrhea
• Bowl 4: c: No diarrhea
• Bowl 5: d: No diarrhea
• Bowl 6: e: No diarrhea
• Bowl 7: f: No diarrhea
• Bowl 8: g: No diarrhea
• Bowl 9: The one the OP is referring to “tomorrow”, which could have h, i, or h + i

That’s a perfectly feasible if disgusting way to have a bowl from a poke truck if you’re doing it solely for an experiment. And that’s just one setup; there are more convoluted ones you could do that have fewer ingredients but mixed together so your bowls aren’t just one combination. I just chose the counterexample that’s easiest to construct mathematically and which logically uses the fewest steps to eliminate each ingredient.

Edit: Wait, sorry, I misconstructed this because I misread it even while quoting it. Fuck, if they got diarrhea each time, then yeah, they’ve properly eliminated nothing.

Yeah that’s what I meant, 100% diarrhea means they eliminated nothing. Sorry I should have phrased that better.