The smoke from breakfast campfires rose fragrantly through the air.
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The entire place probably smells like burning wood and bacon, two wonderful natural smells that might be the most hideous and disgusting of smells when mankind tries to artificially reproduce them. I still don't understand how anybody thinks "bacon-flavored" anything has any relationship to the actual taste of bacon.
Speaking of artificial things that don't taste like the actual thing, I used to wonder, as a kid, why banana-flavored candy tasted so wonderful and yet tasted nothing like bananas. And then I learned about the Gros Michel banana and how it basically went "commercially extinct" in the 60s. So the bananas I've eaten my entire life, the Cavendish, do not taste like banana-flavored candy. The candy is only somewhat reminiscent of a real banana and much, much tastier. So did Gros Michel bananas taste like banana flavoring?! Probably more so than the Cavendish but I'm sure, like most artificial flavors (especially those developed over a hundred years ago), it's not exact. Apparently the thing we think of as banana flavor was initially thought of as pear flavor in Great Britain back when the flavor was developed. If you want to learn more about banana monoculture or the creation of artificial flavors, visit your local library!
"Guaranteed to start conversation" doesn't assure it's going to be a good conversation. Maybe one that begins, "What the fuck are these disgusting appetizers, you monster?!"
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