The idea was that, by spending eighty-four hours with no food and no company except our thoughts, we would gain insight into our private depths — while also, possibly, doing the trip's organizers a favor by sparing them the expense of feeding us for three and a half days.
Behind the stage, the staff were amazing too, ferrying us to the supermarket for wine and feeding us delicious food even though they didn't have to.
It is a journey into the mind of the man who has done more than almost anybody in Britain to re-engineer the way high-end restaurants approach the knotty business of cooking for us and feeding us.
Relatives of the dead men came to the conclusion, as Rogan puts it, that "they had treated us like mushrooms, keeping us in the dark for years and feeding us whatnot".
Wayne Elliott, a truck driver and passenger on the Puttees, told CBC he was content: "They are feeding us for free, so we're good".
The product has found success, but even so, its one-note functionality feels underwhelming compared to the expectations science-fiction has been feeding us for decades.
Thelma, our nanny, looked after, cooked for, and fed us.
