[This is a series of Cheesesteak talk. You can view all posts in this series by selecting under ‘Cheesesteak’ in the category section on the right hand sidebar. I shall blog about it as it progresses…]

As adapted from panda’s adaptation of my previous post on About Cheesesteak and Beefballs & Continuation: The Moment When the Food Was Served.

So 50 minutes before the dining time, your 4 friends who are also savouring the cheesesteaks and you sit at the dinning table, eagerly awaiting for the food to be served. You all discuss about the wonderful Cheesesteaks that are going to be served, each time salivating whenever images of the cheesesteak flashes in your mind. Your stomach undergoes the cephalic phase in preparation of the arrival of food, your G cells secreting gastrin to increase gastric juice production and gastric motility.

You sit wide eyed with your fork and knife in hand at the table. The chef comes out of the kitchen pushing a trolley with 5 sets of dinners for each of you, flashes you a big wide smile and finally serves the dishes to each of you individually in front of you. In great excitment, all of you opened the lid and in great astonishment saw:

1 x cheesesteak served to you
1 x Beefballs served to one friend
3 x chop suey, sushi and french fries served to your 3 other friends.

Still in shock, you don’t know whether to be angry or happy at this surprise. Isin’t everyone going to taste the Cheesesteaks all together? And now you are the only one with the Cheesesteak? The chef returns to the kitchen after serving the dishes and you presume there is no way to change the dishes anyore.

Out of curiosity, you took up your fork and poked at the cheesesteak and the cheese oozes out. You know it is going to taste good, but it will be a long and lone cheesesteak savouring process all by yourself. You stop and think if you are going to put the pieces of cheesesteak into your mouth. Meanwhile, one of your friend decided to forgo the cheesesteak and savour her newly discovered delicacy of chop suey, sushi and french fries.

[This is a series of Cheesesteak talk. You can view all posts in this series by selecting under ‘Cheesesteak’ in the category section on the right hand sidebar. I shall blog about it as it progresses…]

I chose the Cheesesteak in the end.

But of course, there’s still 1 hour before dinner time and anything could change.

[This is a series of Cheesesteak talk. You can view all posts in this series by selecting under ‘Cheesesteak’ in the category section on the right hand sidebar. I shall blog about it as it progresses…]

Imagine this.

You are told that you will be having Cheesesteak for dinner tomorrow night, something you craved for to try and took all means to obtain the opportunity of savouring it. Today you spent all the time imaging how that Cheesesteak would taste like, and felt all excited awaiting the arrival of tomorrow evening.

Then two hours before dinner is served, the chef calls you down and offers you Beefballs instead. Now those beefballs look tempting enough. Afterall, there are many out there who wants a taste of the Beefballs as well and you should count yourself fortunate enough to have two options offered to you.

The catch is that the chef tells you that he has absolutely no idea how these Beefballs will taste like because so far not many people have tried them and the taste varies slightly from time to time. But he promised it will be a new and rewarding tasting experience for you as well based on his own experience with the beefballs. His point is that both the Cheesesteak and beefballs will satisfy your hunger and in fact those beefballs will provide even greater tasting experience because of the unknowns linked to them.

He expects you to make a decision on the spot.

What will you do?