DHH · 2026-08-26 · source ↗ · whole document (17)
Eternal recurrence and future of human civization
`5:08:40`
... you're gonna, you're gonna drive half an hour to go to a cafeteria. Well, it just so happens to be, it is the best lunch I've probably ever had in my life. The chef there is just unbelievably good, and not only is the food amazing, what's even more amazing to my system thinking brain is that at any one time when we were up there, I think there were probably 200 people waiting for their food. And our food was delivered in five minutes. They have a small menu, and clearly they make it in bulk, and it's unbelievably delicious.
`5:09:17`
It's a cafeteria at a museum that happens to have the best lunch I've ever had anywhere in my life.
`5:09:23`
It's, like, Nordic cuisine, so it's, it's... A funny thing is the menu, when I look at it, I was like, "Do you know what? If I saw this menu- As a kid, I'd go like, "I'm not eating here." It's like, I don't know-
`5:09:33`
... root free fruit and-... and onions-... and all sorts of healthy stuff. That sounds disgusting. And then you sit down and eat it, and the angels sing. But it's even more particular than that. It's the butter. The whipped butter that they have there, the best butter anywhere in the world.
`5:09:52`
There must be some connection. But literally-... even in Paris, I've never had whipped butter that tastes as delicious as the butter does at Louisiana in Copenhagen. Literally, I would drive 30 minutes-... to have bread and butter at the cafeteria in Louisiana.
`5:10:15`
... and we had the lunch, and we were like...
`5:10:20`
This is rivaling the best tasting restaurants-... I've ever been to in my life, and I've gone to Noma a couple of times and tried what there is to try, and this is right up there.