While many foods are rather delicious, the process of eating some requires elements of sacrifice and endurance. Ponder the effort it takes to eat a single french fry compared to the process of consuming a grape fruit or an orange. It is up to each individual to decide whether or not the nuisance involved with eating a certain food can be overshadowed by the taste of it.
The Nuisance to Taste Ratio formula is simple: Divide your taste rating of a given food on a scale of 1 to 7* by the average amount of seconds required to eat the food. If your NTR score is above 1.0, the food should be strongly considered for consumption. If it is below, the food should be reevaluated as a reasonable option.
PRACTICE PROBLEM:
If your biological mother buys you dill pickle flavored sunflower seeds at a gas station, on the way to your stepmother's house, should you eat this common road trip snack food? Let's assume that you are a reasonable individual and you give the seeds a taste rating of 3.1. You estimate your skill at cracking open sunflower seeds with your tongue based on your jr. high girlfriend's comments about your disgusting kissing style, and you figure each seed would take you around 8 seconds to eat.
3.1/8 = .39 NTR SCORE.
Therefore, since your NTR score is below 1.0, you probably shouldn't waste your time on the sunflower seeds. Besides, you're almost to your stepmother's house and she probably ordered pizza from that shitty local place again instead of Pizza Hut.
(Controversial NTR foods include smores, sushi, and candy necklaces.)
*A scale ranging from 1 to 7, rather than 1 to 10, provides for more thoughtful analysis by making it more difficult to estimate the exact percentage associated with a respective rating. Everyone knows that 2/10 is 20%, but probably thinks, "Uuuh, fuck." when trying to figure out the percentage of 2/7.
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What about cigarettes?
ReplyDeleteElle,
ReplyDeleteAlthough NTR scores are usually reserved for foods, cigarettes are a good example of how one's opinion on the quality of taste can drastically affect an NTR score.
What makes the matter complex is that cigarettes often leave individuals physically addicted, likely creating an extreme outlier or two were one to attempt graphing an NTR score set of data.
All in all, a good question.
Regards,
R.M.
Wow. Thank you SO much for clearing this up for me, R.M. You are a lifesaver - comparable, even, to my American Spirits.
ReplyDeleteAnd you know how highly I think of my American Spirits.