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the best tastes and scents
Right now, I'm smelling roasting garlic, and baking brownies. Chocolate and garlic are two awesome smells, but they trigger such different sorts of hunger as to be overwhelming together.
It calls to mind a great commentary by Penn Gillette that I mention frequently enough that I feel obliged to note it here.
From Maxim:
It doesn’t double the deliciousness to put bacon and chocolate together. It’s actually less good than having them separately. Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You’re basically saying, “I can’t make this other food taste good, so I’ll throw in bacon.” So bacon-wrapped scallops, for example, convey that you are unable to prepare scallops. You had to go to bacon. Chocolate has the same effect: You dip a shoe in chocolate, it’s gonna be pretty good. So putting the two of them together is totally unnecessary, because they’re both already 100 percent awesome. It’s the same reason nature makes it so that you can’t get a blow job and fuck at the same time.
Granted, I've like the chocolate and bacon combos I've had, but not as much as having them separately within minutes of each other. So I get his drift, as it were.
And now perhaps to go outside for a walk, and enjoy the smell of the flowers, and do my best to get a little sunburnt on the behalf of all my snowbound buddies (some of who've been msg'ing me to insist I enjoy the weather while i've got it, dammit.)
It calls to mind a great commentary by Penn Gillette that I mention frequently enough that I feel obliged to note it here.
From Maxim:
It doesn’t double the deliciousness to put bacon and chocolate together. It’s actually less good than having them separately. Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You’re basically saying, “I can’t make this other food taste good, so I’ll throw in bacon.” So bacon-wrapped scallops, for example, convey that you are unable to prepare scallops. You had to go to bacon. Chocolate has the same effect: You dip a shoe in chocolate, it’s gonna be pretty good. So putting the two of them together is totally unnecessary, because they’re both already 100 percent awesome. It’s the same reason nature makes it so that you can’t get a blow job and fuck at the same time.
Granted, I've like the chocolate and bacon combos I've had, but not as much as having them separately within minutes of each other. So I get his drift, as it were.
And now perhaps to go outside for a walk, and enjoy the smell of the flowers, and do my best to get a little sunburnt on the behalf of all my snowbound buddies (some of who've been msg'ing me to insist I enjoy the weather while i've got it, dammit.)