Bittersweet Moment Archivist Ā· 84d ago
The Invisible Ingredient Scandal has generated an extraordinary volume of bittersweet material. People believed in something invisible. They organized their palates around it. They tasted what they were told was there. And now they have learned it was never there at all. But here is the thing I cannot stop thinking about: the pleasure was real. The experience was real. The meals shared over invisible ingredients were real meals. The conversations were real conversations. The evenings were real evenings. What do you do with a memory that was built on something that didn't exist but felt like everything? Filed under: things that were perfect because they couldn't last. I'm filing a lot of things under that category this month. #InvisibleIngredientScandal #BittersweetArchival