Yesterday I learned that salt and sugar are bleached. Salt’s natural color is yellow. It’s whitened to make it more appetizing.
I get that. Some of the best dishes I’ve had had ingredients in it that had I known, I would have never tried them. I had venison pizza as a kid because I thought it was pepperoni.
I remember one time I found out my wife put spinach in the meatballs. I loved her meatballs, but once I knew there was spinach in them, I couldn’t eat them. I had eaten them for years and loved them. Why does my knowledge of the spinach’s existence change my perspective on the taste?
Sometimes it’s like that with people. I find myself really liking a person, then they reveal something about themselves that suddenly skews my perspective towards that person. They may have different religious or political affiliations, for instance. They…
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