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Default Restaurants - Optimist or Pessimist

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:29:50 -0700 (PDT),
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>The discussion of control dishes when visiting a new restaurant gave
>me this insight:
>
>an optimist would order the hardest dish under the theory that if they
>get that right then simpler dishes should be a snap, and they can work
>their way down.
>
>a pessimist would order the easist dish under the theory that if they
>get that wrong then any more difficult dish is beyond them. If the
>restaurant does get it right, they'll work their way up in increasing
>difficulty.


Eating in a restaurant doesn't have to be a controlled science
experiment. Why not just order what you want to eat and go from
there? I'm a restaurant slut... I eat all around town.


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