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Why Are American Chips So Boring?
Alison Roman: “People are so brand-conscious now, and I think they’ve become that way about food. ‘Are those the Fishwife anchovies?’ No, it’s Cento. Or some Spanish brand you’ve never heard of, but it’s the same anchovies inside the tin. People are too conscious about choosing the ‘right’ thing that signifies their taste level, or who they are as
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It’s like any other comfort food, Keval says. “It comes from a longing for home. Second- or third-generation immigrant kids might not ever be able to taste what our families originally ate, but we still long for it—the taste is coded into us.”
Taste • Closing, Not Fusing, The Gap
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So it’s better to view our taste buds as an adaptation fitted to ancestral conditions that included near-starvation and apples and roast rabbit, which modern humans execute in a new context that includes cheap chocolate and constant bombardment by advertisements.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
In a bite, one can taste the specific history and culture of this self-made, individualist, capitalist country.
Adam Davidson • The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century
The Taste Economy is the idea that there are essentially only three business moats: proprietary technology, supply chain innovation and taste.
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