I knew a chess teacher who asked his students if they looked at an entire menu of ice cream offerings before ordering.
He was working at getting the kids to examine all the choices before jumping at a move. That’s not how proficient chessplayers operate, but little kids would surely benefit from that habit.
I once heard my teacher pose the same question, though it wasn’t I’ve cream, but some other menu items. RRS told the kids that adults have a harder time at chess because they’ve already made their minds up about so many things, and considering a wider number of chess moves won’t occur to them.
I’ve given up on employing that analogy for a discouraging reason — too many children already certain that they want fudge ripple puke, and don’t care to look at the analogous wall.
I bring this up because I’ve found a new favorite candy bar. Since the ’80s, it’s been a KitKat bar or a Hershey’s with almonds, done.
Months ago, I picked up a Kinder Bueno — the only way this could’ve happened was no KitKat, no Hershey’s, and I spotted “hazelnut” on the wrapper. (The Prince Polo hazelnut chocolate wafer is killer, but the Russian market that carried that Polish delight died in the pandemic.)
The Kinder Bueno is like if you infused a KitKat with hazelnut cream and, uh, air? KitKat is kind of a slab, but the Bueno wafer is somehow fluffier.
I have a new candy bar. It is possible for seniors to change their minds about things they decided decades ago.