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Janet Baraclough wrote:
>
> The message >
> from dsi1 > contains these words:
>
> > Learning to place trust in yourself and your taste may take a long time
> > for a few. I can tell that you're not one of those! For most if us, it
> > takes a while to learn to get a flavor target solidly in our minds. For
> > beginners it's quite fuzzy and well, you can't reliably hit a fuzzy target!

>
> That might be true for any droid who landed on earth from planet Zog
> disguised as a fully grown adult humanoid.*
> Real humans, have had a decade or two of eating food cooked by
> others; quite enough experience of mastication
> to "consolidate a flavor target" in even the tiniest brain.
>
> * Those who have not had opportunity to solidly consolidate a flavour
> target should enter the following useful phrases into their speech
> synthesiser.
> "Blech, tastes like shit"
> "Yummy, that's just like Mother made it".
>
> Janet.


ROTFL! But it's true