227/365 Blind taste

[version française ici : shadow.light.over-blog.com/article-blind-taste-72116513.html]

 

Imagine that you had no sense of smell

Well, not exactly

Imagine, instead, that you had a limited sense of smell

Then

        well

    smell being such a massive part of what we call taste

    you would have a very limited sense of taste

    as well

Now

      for the sake of weirdness

let's limit this sense of taste

      not just in strength

        or precision

  but more than this

      let's limit it

          also

          and especially

        ...

            in time

 

Imagine

    that

          when you eat something

          you could indeed taste it

          although not as strongly or precisely as some other people would

but

    that

          as soon as this food has gone away from your tastebuds

          you could not recall the taste of it

          more than a few seconds

 

Instant taste

    instantly gone

 

Imagine

  just after eating something

        being left

  with the memory of whether you liked it

        or not

and that's it

    nothing more

    nothing else

Any other detail

    would have vanished by then

 

 

Strange things would happen

    if you had such a nonsense of taste

 

You would probably be rather

                                                                                  easy

                                                        to feed

  as you would appreciate many simple things

  … never getting bored of any food

 

You would look at your plate

    what's left in it

  and you would know

            that you would enjoy the next bite

    although you couldn't know exactly what it would feel like ...

Of course you would eat it !

And the next bite two

    Until it is all gone

    Quickly

 

You could also eat various things

    - anything that you remember you like in fact -

    in

      any

        order

  Without

      any

          interference

              between each other

 

A good thing

              for some

      is that it would make the very notion of diet perfectly absurd

  as you would not really be missing any specific food

      since you would not crave its effects on you

  You would just remember that you like it

          sure

      but not differently than any other reasonably sane food that you also happen to remember you like

You wouldn't even have to trick yourself

 

Well

      of course

                cooking

    would be a quite a strange exercice

Sure, you could follow a recipe

    well ... you would have to follow a recipe !

because

    you could not predict anything

    about the taste

                      of anything

That's where the

      limitation in then precision

              and even more so in the strength

      of that sense of taste of yours

  would save you

... but it would save noone else

            among the people

            who would be

                                unlucky enough

                          to be around

                                  at the time

You would

              quickly

      limit yourself

      to very simple things

  anything that couldn't fail

... sometimes at the insistence

    of some friends of yours

    who would like to remain so

 

 

Some bad

    Some good

 

And the best part of it all

      oh the best of the best

          and by far

      oh let me tell you about that

    is when you are given the chance to eat

                  a

                  really

            good meal

And I mean

    really

    really

          good

I mean

    when

    all the sensations

        all the instantaneous sensations

    you have

          one after the other

    while eating

            bite after bite

    are captivating you

            again and again

    like a wonderful story

            when it is wonderfully told

            and you know that something else wonderful will follow

            and you just want it to keep going on

There is this pleasure

      just the sheer pleasure

          of letting yourself be carried along

    Nothing intellectual in there

        let me tell you

  and thanks to this special taste of yours

        nothing can come in the way

        of the instantaneity of it all

 

It's

It's akin to ...

  to ...

  well ...

you know what I mean

If you've

      ever

  experienced it

 

Enough

      said

  Time to

        ... eat

 

 

Done