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Candy Conundrum
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Candy Conundrum
September 3, 2016 at 10:12 pm
If you have two pieces of candy left equal in satisfaction, is it better to eat them both at once to have a greater strength of taste or to eat them one at a time so as to lengthen the time you're enjoying them?

You think Aristotle ever faced this?
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RE: Candy Conundrum
September 3, 2016 at 10:13 pm
One at a time.
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RE: Candy Conundrum
September 3, 2016 at 10:18 pm
Chew up the first one thuroughly, then pop the second one in and savor it amidst in the dissolving body of it's former compannion.


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RE: Candy Conundrum
September 3, 2016 at 10:19 pm
(September 3, 2016 at 10:18 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: Chew up the first one thuroughly, then pop the second one in and savor it amidst in the dissolving body of it's former compannion.


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RE: Candy Conundrum
September 3, 2016 at 10:22 pm
Depends how much you feel your pancreas dancing after the first one.
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RE: Candy Conundrum
September 3, 2016 at 10:26 pm
(September 3, 2016 at 10:12 pm)Aegon Wrote: If you have two pieces of candy left equal in satisfaction,  is it better to eat them both at once to have a greater strength of taste or to eat them one at a time so as to lengthen the time you're enjoying them?

You think Aristotle ever faced this?

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RE: Candy Conundrum
September 3, 2016 at 10:30 pm
(September 3, 2016 at 10:12 pm)Aegon Wrote: If you have two pieces of candy left equal in satisfaction,  is it better to eat them both at once to have a greater strength of taste or to eat them one at a time so as to lengthen the time you're enjoying them?

You think Aristotle ever faced this?

Take the two pieces of candy to your best friend. Give him/her one of them. Enjoyment shared is enjoyment increased.

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RE: Candy Conundrum
September 3, 2016 at 10:36 pm (This post was last modified: September 3, 2016 at 10:38 pm by emjay.)
Even better, eat one and save the other for later... that way you get two build ups instead of one. I find it's like when you interrupt yourself having a piss or eating... at first you 'need' to carry on but leave it a while and that feeling of instant need disappears and is replaced by the feeling of less hunger or less need to pee... not total satisfaction but better than it was before.

ETA... 'even better' wasn't in reference to boru, just the OP.
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RE: Candy Conundrum
September 3, 2016 at 10:41 pm
(September 3, 2016 at 10:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(September 3, 2016 at 10:12 pm)Aegon Wrote: If you have two pieces of candy left equal in satisfaction,  is it better to eat them both at once to have a greater strength of taste or to eat them one at a time so as to lengthen the time you're enjoying them?

You think Aristotle ever faced this?

Take the two pieces of candy to your best friend. Give him/her one of them. Enjoyment shared is enjoyment increased.

Boru

This is the wrong answer.
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RE: Candy Conundrum
September 3, 2016 at 10:41 pm
So what's the right answer?
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