confuseme (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} confuseme) wrote,@ 2004-11-09 00:10:00 |
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Hollandaise and Pavlov
wookiepocket over there posted a recipe for Hollandaise sauce, and that got me thinking.
The first time I ever heard of Hollandaise sauce was in my high school psychology class. It was in the context of some story about a group of people who had dinner together, including Hollandaise sauce, and who got food poisoning. The next time each of them had Hollandaise sauce, they disliked the taste, or they felt ill afterward, something like that -- the point was that they had a trained reaction to the stimulus. I thought it was a pretty compelling story at the time, contrasted closely as it was with Freud's unscientific, coke-fueled raving. And so, any time someone mentions Hollandaise sauce, I think of food poisoning and psychology.
It just occurred to me that this is funny.
wookiepocket over there posted a recipe for Hollandaise sauce, and that got me thinking.The first time I ever heard of Hollandaise sauce was in my high school psychology class. It was in the context of some story about a group of people who had dinner together, including Hollandaise sauce, and who got food poisoning. The next time each of them had Hollandaise sauce, they disliked the taste, or they felt ill afterward, something like that -- the point was that they had a trained reaction to the stimulus. I thought it was a pretty compelling story at the time, contrasted closely as it was with Freud's unscientific, coke-fueled raving. And so, any time someone mentions Hollandaise sauce, I think of food poisoning and psychology.
It just occurred to me that this is funny.
