"There was a blackout in 2022 that wiped out most of the digital data in the world - including cultural contributions like music and movies, but some survived, and there were physical copies then. VHS tapes, records, film reels," K explains, perhaps unwittingly also explaining why he likes listening to music from 1966 and Joi displayed a lot of retro clothing in the memory. It doesn't occur to him as odd, personally. "I liked watching them but they had a lot of food in them I'd never seen and we could never have reproduced anyway. Olivier salad, spaghetti with meatballs, charlotte russe, milkshakes, boiled eggs, cannolis, sole meunière, bologna, steak and frites."
She's seen the memory, she knows where that last one comes from anyway. He takes another bite of banana bread and takes his time chewing it, too, before he speaks again. "But then I came here and I realized there's no point in having a list. There's so much I've never even heard of, let alone thought to want to try."
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Date: 2022-08-07 11:20 pm (UTC)She's seen the memory, she knows where that last one comes from anyway. He takes another bite of banana bread and takes his time chewing it, too, before he speaks again. "But then I came here and I realized there's no point in having a list. There's so much I've never even heard of, let alone thought to want to try."