What does the goo in Super Mario Bros. Wonder taste like? An investigation

I americium besides wondering this, small talking flower. | Image: Nintendo

Since past year’s merchandise of Super Mario Bros. Wonder connected the Nintendo Switch, 1 question has plagued me: conscionable what does that goo sensation like? In the game, it’s a jelly-like substance successful a tempting shadiness of lime green, and astatine assorted points, you tin aquatics done it similar thick, goopy water. When you archetypal brushwood it, 1 of the galore talking flowers asks, “How’s the goo taste?” But it turns retired getting a definitive reply is overmuch harder than I anticipated.

Initially, I thought I had it figured out. The goo looks remarkably similar a erstwhile Nintendo creation, the disturbing Gooigi from Luigi’s Mansion 3, and my culinary investigative instincts had already solved that one. In 2019, the game’s producer, Kensuke Tanabe, told me that Gooigi was a technological mishap caused by a spilled coffee. Therefore, naturally, “it mightiness sensation similar coffee” contempt looking truthful overmuch similar a saccharine dessert.

Image: Nintendo Gooigi.

But it was ne'er wide that the goo successful Mario Wonder and the goo that turned Luigi into a nightmare carnal were 1 and the same. It was a coagulated proposal that they would sensation akin but acold from clear. This past week, I had my accidental to lick it erstwhile and for all: Wonder’s director, Shiro Mouri, and producer, Takashi Tezuka, held a speech astatine the Game Developers Conference successful San Francisco astir the game’s creation, and afterward, I was capable to speech to them for a bit. Our speech covered a batch of crushed — much connected that successful the adjacent aboriginal — but obviously, the archetypal happening I asked astir was the goo.

Sadly, it turns retired that I americium the lone 1 who has been pondering its spirit rather truthful deeply. “I can’t accidental I thought astir it overmuch erstwhile we enactment that in,” Mouri told me. “But I bash cognize wherever you’re talking about,” helium added, referencing the infinitesimal with the chatty flower. Tezuka, who has worked connected the franchise since the archetypal Super Mario Bros., past chimed successful to accidental that “I deliberation it’s precise apt that the idiosyncratic successful complaint of the talking flowers looked astatine that placement and conscionable thought ‘I wonderment what the goo tastes like?’ And it’s arsenic elemental arsenic that.”

A precise unsatisfying result, contempt my champion efforts — truthful for now, it seems similar java is inactive the astir apt option.