hmmm...
my lunch today (frozen dinner) has some surprising features.
the box says, the vegetables are "flash-frozen at the peak of perfection."
umm...
can you have a peak of perfection? i mean, it's either perfect, or it's not, right? it's not like perfection has peaks and valleys. it's all just one nice level plane of perfection. presumably there are varying degrees of other features, say, freshness, or ripeness, or deliciousness. but i am pretty sure that perfection is its own discrete attribute.
food for thought, if you will.
the box says, the vegetables are "flash-frozen at the peak of perfection."
umm...
can you have a peak of perfection? i mean, it's either perfect, or it's not, right? it's not like perfection has peaks and valleys. it's all just one nice level plane of perfection. presumably there are varying degrees of other features, say, freshness, or ripeness, or deliciousness. but i am pretty sure that perfection is its own discrete attribute.
food for thought, if you will.
posted by saara at
10:04 AM
3 Comments:
i suppose being "at the peak of perfection" would be somewhat like being "very unique."
"the city in which we live is much greener than it was three weeks ago."
or,
"this leaf is greener than that one, which is still a little more yellow."
or,
"that fourth-year resident is greener than his rank would suggest."
(not you)
By
CamoBunny, at 19 April, 2006 05:39
Maybe it's not that the vegetables are frozen when they are "most perfect" but rather at a peak which can be distinguished from other peaks, for example: the peak of greenness, the peak of proximity to the flash-freezing processing machine, the peak of putrefaction. Assuming that each of these peaks (may) occur at different points in time, perhaps the frozen dinner packaging author chose, after having noted that the vegetables were flash frozen at their peak, to modify said peak with the more specific "of perfection" for the Avoidance of Doubt (this is a legal term I picked up in a recent contract and which I like very much).
By
AlleyCat, at 20 April, 2006 00:18
Wow. That's more thought than I usually give to frozen dinners.
By
Jay, at 25 April, 2006 05:24
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