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The Restaurant Paradox

'On one hand, needing variety, the omnivore is inclined towards diversification, innovation, exploration and change, which can be vital to its survival; but, on the other hand, it has to be careful, mistrustful, 'conservative' in its eating: any new, unknown food is a potential danger.'

Claude Fischler

'The history of every major Galactic Civilisation tends to pass through three distinct and recognisable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterised by the question How can we eat? the second by the question Why do we eat? and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?

The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Fischler argues that, on one hand, humanity's biologically rounted omnivorousness implies autonomy, freedom and adaptability. Yet on the other, an omnivore cannot obtain all it's nutrients from one source of food. This results in the 'omnivore's paradox' - a constant struggle between neophilia and neophobia - which is behind the development of many diverse systems of culinary rules developed in human cultures.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy argues that civilisation's greatest question (apart from 'What Do You Get If You Multiply Six By Nine?') is 'Where Shall We Have Lunch?'

The synthesis between these two vital strains in the sociology of food results in The Pits Restaurant Pardox. On one hand, you can go to a restaurant that you know has cheap, yet fabulous food. On the other, if you go to the same restaurant all the time you get bored with it. Therefore, you can take stick with what you know, and risk it becoming unsatisfying, or you can explore new restaurants, and take the change that you may end up pay $20 for total crap.

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