Heh, Edison never married his cousin either. :^)
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Posted on 06/06/2024 8:51:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“What makes you think he wasn’t serving an already overly seasoned soup just to reinforce the reject’s mistake in presuming things?”
My mom thought my sister salted her food way too much. I think sis was back from college and mom gave her something to eat - probably a bowl of soup?
Sis grabs the salt shaker.
“Oh - you should taste the soup first. I know you like your food salty so I added some extra.”
Sis ignored her and showered the soup with salt.
She took one sip of the soup and spit it out. Mom had dumped maybe a half a cup of salt in her bowl of soup.
I doubt that changed my sister’s habits, but I suppose it made my mom feel better. In spite of the wasted bowl of soup.
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The soup question goes to the very heart of science. Looking at the existing data and coming up with a theory or solution.
“The simple reality is that it’s a dumb interview “question” because it actually tells you nothing about the person. “
Where did you get that dumb idea?
People used to switch the sugar and salt in the shakers at restaurants.
They can be fun. Unless somebody won’t budge for pure ego reasons.
But yeah as adults with life experiences we know a lot about the food put in front of us without taking a bite. And we also know how we like it.
I’ll move away from soup to coffee. Everybody has how they like their coffee. And they add their preferred level of cream and sugar over and over again. No matter where they get it, no matter the brand, no matter if they’ve that particular coffee before. If you’re a one cream two sugars guy then that’s you for life. Diner, truck stop, gourmet restaurant, friend’s house. 1 & 2, that’s your coffee. Nobody who asks how you take it says anything else about it.
And of course at the Italian restaurant when they bust out with the pepper grinder and parmesan they don’t have you taste it first. You want parm? Say when. You want pepper? Say when.
Taste it first is for when you really no idea what’s put in front you.
Touche’, I find the coffee and italian grub great analogies!
Viva la difference is always better than lockstep agreements / obedience
Plus I recently found a new coffee preference. Usually must have 2 french vanilla creams (never powdered only the real thing), but salted carmel and/or carmel machiatto are sooo good too. But so far only seems to be available in the pricier dunkin donuts brand.
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Well said, GOPJ... and I found another "K" for slogan! KITE, a knave who is consumed by greed as used by Shakespeare.
KING LEAR
Greed is a disguised motive of the DEI crowd (Destroy any Enterprise by putting Incompetents in charge). They cry, "The rich are oppressing me!". But the playbook is about greed and stealing money from productive citizens.
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