If someone offered her an average dessert an hour later — perfectly fine, entirely forgettable — she’d probably pass. We eat it because declining feels like more effort than eating, not because we wanted it before it arrived. It’s narrower than that and more useful:Pleasure is worth choosing, but not every available pleasure is worth the choice. An average conversation may use the only free evening we could have spent with a close friend—or alone. Since hearing Ali’s theory, I have started wondering which experiences in my own life are equivalent to horchata with fartons.