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Utility for Meal Planning
Would you take this offer?
You can no longer eat or drink, but you no longer need to to survive.
I wouldn't, but I've known people who would. I've also known people like the villain from Ratatouille that would never eat something just for the calories. I'd say I lean more towards the first, certainly my interest in cooking is one of cost optimization, not expressing myself through the medium of food.
Taste does matter to me though, I realized this recently while eating particularly bland stroganoff. Novelty of taste as well, which is why I rotate through recipes rather than just picking my favorite.1 But the value of taste declines sharply above a certain point.
For me, a recipe with high utility is tasty, cheap, and convenient to prepare.
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Internalized social stigma probably deserves more credit there, but the outcome is the same. ↩︎