Remembrance of Avocado Lust
Julie reminds me of the days of Avocado Lust.Caltech has a student-run food joint called the Coffeehouse. At one point in the middle-nineties I was hooked on a milkshake they had called Avocado Lust.(*) It was green, thanks to food coloring, and featured chocolate and maraschino cherries. It was very tasty.
A year or two goes by, undergraduates graduate (while I with true-fix'd and resting quality remain as constant as the Northern Star), and get this:
They lost the recipe! They forgot how to make it!
A cautionary tale for us all. Things that are known can become unknown.
(*) contains no avocado
2 Comments:
I believe Terence's entire Ph.D. thesis consisted of trying to properly re-engineer a semiconductor process which was defective because the originating company had lost the recipe.
There's always the cautionary tale of the 1986 Domesday Book (as compared to the original Domesday Book, which is still legible after 900+ years!)
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