“Each of us spends an average of fifteen full days a year doing nothing but eating,”—Bill Haduch, Food Rules

According to scientists, the link between food and memory began as a human survival tactic known as conditioned taste aversion. Our bodies are programmed to forever remember foods that made us sick, along with when and where we ate them, so we will be sure to avoid eating them in the future. Along with remembering bad food experiences, we are also programmed to remember delicious food experiences.

Poetry Challenge #149

Tastes Like Sunshine

What is the most delicious thing you ever remember eating? Where were you when you ate it? What were you doing before? (Or what did you do after?) Who were you with?

Write a poem about it.

Extra points for using a simile to compare the taste of that food with some non-food thing. A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things often using the words "like", "as", or "than.”

The title of your poem will be the place you were when that food memory was created. in that memory. Fill in the blank:

Tastes Like ________________.

“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. — *“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste”*— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes

Start Writing

Don’t Think Too Much About it; Just do it!

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge MORE THAN 1550 days ago! (without a miss!!!) We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.

Poetry Challenge #149-Tastes Like Sunshine