There's an episode of Friends that nails the fundamental silliness of foodie culture. Phoebe is nostalgically reminiscing about grandma's cookies, Monica is trying to techbro-reverse-engineer it from Phoebe's description. Turns out to be nestle-tollhouse wrapper recipe.
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There is an interesting tradeoff between excellence and tastefulness. Excellence requires consistency, to be well-posed. You need a reference ideal to go all six-sigma on anything. Tastefulness otoh requires constantly evolving variety, the leading "aha" edge of an essence.
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"The most excellent cookie" is always consistently the same, while "the most interesting cookie" (not tasty, interesting, as in the connoisseur's idea of the bleeding edge of cookieness) is a moving target driven by increasing understanding and sensitivity to nuances.
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There was an article where some Trappist monk swore Budweiser was the best beer because they produce millions of gallons of it and it's consistently the same
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Part of what makes iPhones so amazing is that they pump out 100 million of them a year. Not just the best tech, but at the highest scale
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