• xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    OK hehe but shape actually contributes a lot to the overall taste and experience of candy. My favorite reese’s used to be the peanut butter bar because it had a much better ratio of chocolate and peanut butter. Exact same ingredients, different shape, better candy. (To me.)

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      8 months ago

      Everything contributes to the experience of anything. Shape, color, texture etc. Pasta is a great example of this. A cool thing to try is to drink water from different kinds of glassware, cups, anything. Even the light in the area we’re in and our current mood has an effect.

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        8 months ago

        Pasta is a great example of this.

        When I was at university one of my friends was studying engineering and one of his assignments was to design it a new type of pasta in CAD software to maximize surface area and minimize volume or something. The result came out looking like some kind of 2D fractal, with a bunch of holes in it.

        Basically you don’t want too much pasta in your pasta.

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 months ago

      Agree. Plus the shape contributes too. I look forward to Snicker’s nutcrackers, for example, because the sharp corners make the bar more enjoyable to bite through.