I don’t understand anything about flavour, that’s the problem. My taste buds are like a child’s. I’m perfectly happy with convenience store bento boxes and curry from cheap restaurants.

— Rika in Asako Yuzuki’s, Butter, Harper Collins, Ch. 1, p. 9, 2023

I’m a little like Rika. I lack taste and, at times, I am self-conscious about that lack of taste.