Wow, quite a long-distance abstraction. Kinda blew my mind. From restaurants to relationships and speculative execution. It’s all about the looks, indeed. One

Wow, quite a long-distance abstraction. Kinda blew my mind. From restaurants to relationships and speculative execution. It’s all about the looks, indeed. One thing that maybe fits with this is the societal hierarchy of our senses. Seeing is somehow assumed to be much more objective than hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting. If you have very good hearing you might have found yourself in situations where you perceive an unpleasant noise that’s below other people’s thresholds and then it’s not too uncommon to be seen as a bit of a loony if you bring it up. Smelling is the most subtle, instinctive and animal-like sense. Usually people are very polite there and in our current time it’s the norm to not say anything even if e.g. someone emits strong body odor that’s actively bothering the environment. Vision however is thought to be objective. Photography. Pic or it didn’t happen. If object classifier checks out, it’s legit. (What else could there be?!) Digital image just like retinal image, right!? So if you get what looks desirable (that shiny tomato or that pretty partner), you have it, you have made it. You don’t have to doubt anything because you saw similar images a thousand times in contexts that clearly said “this is desirable”. A lot comes down to how well our associative brains work with visual stimuli. The way out of this IMHO is to stand up and build confidence and trust in your senses. If something tastes off, treat it of same significance as if that steak was suddenly of green-blue color. That would be alarming. It’s probably fine, maybe these veggies are just lacking in taste, so not dangerous but unsatisfying. If you need acting inspiration, watch that scene from Mulholland Drive where the Italian guy doesn’t quite like his espresso. And regarding trends, the tomatoes in Europe have gotten a lot better in the last decade, particularly in the last five years and that’s largely due to Dutch farmers starting to focus on producing strains with a lot of aroma. It started off as a more pricy premium option but now they’re affordable and available all year-round.