prepickle? postpickle?
A question I ask the wind... are you a prepickle eater or postpickle eater?
When you get your sandwich and it comes with a pickle - whole, half, spear, whatever - do you eat the pickle first or last? Is it a warmup or a cooldown? Apertif or digestif? And what does that say about the person? I realize that there are many cases where the pickle is a component of the dish (burger with pickle slices, chicken shwarma, etc.) or irrelevant (conscientious pickle objectors) but those aren't the point of the question.
I, for the record, prepickle. The way I see it, it's a self-contained food item that has few thematic connections to the rest of what's on the plate, and while they are tasty, they also take up space. No reason not to just go ahead and have it right then and there, and as a benefit, clear space on the plate/basket for mid-meal food maneuvering.
Does this mean anything? Is it one of those anal retentive (controlling, OCD, etc.) or anal expulsive (emotional, prone to outburst) things? Is it poor impulse control on my part?
Or am I just a little too prone to over-analysis? Perhaps sometimes a pickle... is just a pickle.
2 comments:
Sigh. Why is everything so black and white for you? Where are the shades of gray?
I am a pickler intersperser. A bite of pickle to start off and then bites here and there to break up the sandwich monotony as the meal goes on -- or at least slow me down so a yummy tempeh reuben in not consumed in two minutes flat. Another pickle function is to take the taste buds off the sandwich, so that when you go back to it, you get to greet/experience the sandwich again just like the first bite.
Mmmm.... I'm feeling all Luwak-y now!
Shades of grey (or gray) are different from speckle, which is the pickle technique you seem to ascribe to, which I'll argue is a version of prepickling - it serves as a "reset" before the next re-entry to the sammich atmosphere. "Grey" pickling would be to have some pickle mid-chew while mid-chew on sandwich as well.
If you don't have a fine enough resolution, flecks of black and white look like uniform grey - the darkness of grey being dependent on how much of each is present. Or if your imaging is out of focus. Or you're moving so fast the scene is blurred.
Only when you are still, at peace, patient, and precise, can you discern the detail.
And don't go assuming I'm oversimplifying... I may make a distinction between This or That, but that doesn't mean there can't be a complex intertwining of them. Complexity and MultiScale are more than just theories, there my obsessive navel-gazing hobbies.
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