fresh jar

i love the smell of a jar of peanuts (or peanut butter or nutella…) when you first open up the can. i always have to take a deep inhaling sniff. it’s like the first bite of an apple* or that little burst of sweet saliva under your tongue that happens sometimes–it’s fleeting, but wonderful and you have to take a few seconds out of your day to savor it before it is gone. i’ve also read somewhere that each of the three sections of a banana have a different flavor and one is distinctly sweeter than the others. must try this the next time i eat a good banana. anyone else ever notice these things? what little flavors or smells remind you to be completely in the here and now?

(is this a family urban legend or did i hear it somewhere else? that someone had heard that the best bite of an apple was always the first bite and so she took one bite out of a whole bunch of apples…)