Comment by pjerem
8 months ago
> Going to some top of the line Micheline star restaurant _will_ alter how you look at food for the rest of your life.
Interestingly I don’t agree with you and that’s what I would call elitism.
Food is a great example as I know I’m personally able to appreciate a great and complex meal at a high end restaurant and still enjoy some fast food.
It’s the same for art : does having a favorite book/movie/music/videogame/… makes you unable to enjoy other books/movies/music/videogames ?
I mentioned Micheline just as a commonly recognized ranking for restaurant quality, but its irrelevant to the point. Based on whatever internal ranking of food that you have, if you suddenly experience something that goes off your internal chart, you will have to re-scale your ranking to make it fit. I.e your previously ranked experiences will be affected.
Maybe as a whole its a poor example though because enjoyment of food is a multi-dimensional problem. Whereas obliterating a dopamine receptor is one dimensional.