Mixing food

[grouptheory]

There is a fruit bowl in my house's kitchen. A week ago I got a little bag of pretzels, and have been eating them a few per day. The partially-open bag I leave in the fruit bowl, because it's convenient. This week I bought a bag of pears, and also put them in the fruit bowl. Now my pretzels taste like pears.

Comments

[anonymous]

Reminds me of the recipe for making a truffle omelet as told to us by Dad's French postdoc advisor: place one truffle in a basket of eggs, next morning make an omelet using only the eggs. The eggs will have absorbed the smell of the truffle. Never had one of these, but it does sound plausible.

--Maman