Which of these new kinds of food would you want named after you?

[mayintoronto@beige.party]

@evan fruit! I'd probably be allergic to it for maximum irony.

[sysop408@sfba.social]

@maj I was too and I wonder if it has something to do with the psychology of having to make a choice where you have no clear preference.

I didn't feel motivated to choose any of them so I was about to choose the first one by default, but went "No, don't just pick the first one because you're lazy. Everyone else will do that."

So I picked the next one.

@evan

[maj@cosocial.ca]

@sysop408 @evan As an information architect I constantly warn clients about the "Aardvark effect" where users will just default to the first item e.g. in a list of tags for content publishing.

Counter this with the wine list effect, where everyone picks the second-to-most cheap wine to the point that restaurants list the one they want to offload there.

[jessamyn@glammr.us]

@evan I feel you have more of an option for legacy if you go fruit. A deli sandwich is ephemeral but a kumquat is forever.

[jbqueru@floss.social]

@evan A range of gluten-free sandwiches that don't fall apart as I eat them and don't feel doughy or sandy.

[dneary@mastodon.ie]

@evan @maj Some undiscovered Amazonian cousin of the Ugli fruit, probably.

[jamesmarshall@sfba.social]

@evan I'm a dessert man, myself.

[scribe@mastodon.sdf.org]

@evan Possibly the toughest poll I've ever had to do.

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@jessamyn
Johnathon Kumquat lives on forever with those tiny lip-numbing citrus fruit.
@evan

[malte@radikal.social]

@evan A recently discovered exotic fruit on the condition that it was only exotic to everyone else in the world and entirely commonplace where I live - my contribution would be discovering that it is edible. Then some clever person decides to name it after me ... Hm, the more I think about it, I get cold feet.