Re: Food Memory
Eric Sleator, on host 205.153.156.221
Thursday, November 3, 2005, at 17:12:48
Food Memory posted by Sam on Wednesday, November 2, 2005, at 19:54:53:
> Some people don't like having the same meal two evenings in a row. Even if you really love pizza, for example, you might not want to eat it the day after you had it. Or maybe you'll be fine with your *favorite* food two days in a row but not most other foods. > > Other people don't have a problem with having the same meal two days in a row but draw the line at two meals in a row, for example lunch and dinner of the same day. > > For the purposes of this discussion, I shall call this window of time, the minimum length of time for which it is not undesirable to have the same meal twice, one's food memory. > > The question is, how long is your food memory? > > Mine is about two hours long. I try not to have the same thing for lunch and dinner of the same day, but it wouldn't kill me if I did. I've gathered I'm in the minority on this, but now it's time to find out for sure. > > S "and nothing's more sure than a RinkForum poll" am
My food memory is a few hours, but it's very weak, and it is extremely prone to be overpowered by my laziness. So sometimes I'll have toast several times in one day, because I don't feel like making anything more complicated.
-Eric Sleator
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