Helen Chick
I went looking for a lemon tart this morning (as you do!). However, I don’t think Hobart believes in them as I tried several (well, three) plausible patisseries but with no success.
Having a lemon tart to celebrate things is a tradition of my Melbourne colleagues. It is such a tradition, in fact, that on one memorable occasion we conducted blind taste and quality tests to determine which of several alternative lemon tarts from different outlets was the best. You may be able to imagine a bunch of maths, science and IT educators sitting around the tea room with numbered plates bearing morsels of lemon tart, score sheets, carefully defined criteria, and a collection of pens. I think there was even a spreadsheet to collate the results … or maybe we did that by hand! I seem to recall that, fun and informative though it was, the sampling process was nowhere near as satisfying as demolishing a whole slice of single-sourced sour sweetness.
My Hobart colleagues are going to have to make do with a fruit flan.
Ah, the blind taste test and spreadsheet analysis! We have often used this as an excuse to eat to excess. First it was clinkers – I just know that there are very few pink ones (my favourite) but after exhaustive testing and an official Clinker Spreadsheet a team of 7 was unable to prove this theory. More recently it was Cadbury Dairy Milk – did the new one really taste different? Blind folds were employed, control subjects, multiple repetitions (slightly tautological?) all to discover that we just liked eating chocolate.
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