The lowercase fast food, by contrast, maintains the restaurant's role of offering diners pleasure and sustenance, but simply does it speedily.
That's why restorations of classic films, while offering the pleasure of visual clarity, often feel denatured, as if the original virginity of an unscreened print represented a filmmaker's intentions.
There, tucked away in the Alps beneath looming Mont Blanc, the tallest peak in the chain, is the smallest Italian viticultural region, brimming with little-known wines capable of offering great pleasure.
Along with the spiral ramps that Berthold Lubetkin designed for London zoo's penguins, it is one of the great carefree moments of 1930s architecture, offering sheer pleasure in movement and light.
"If the 'I-don't-mind-people-reading-Twilight-because-it-could-lead-to-higher-things' platitude continues to be trotted out, it is because despite all the blurring that has occurred over recent years, we still have no trouble recognizing the difference between the repetitive formula offering easy pleasure and the more strenuous attempt to engage with the world in new ways," Parks wrote.
Differently configured and offering unforeseen pleasures, to other generations, it would still seem like home.
He builds layers of flavors that sneak up without overwhelming, offering quiet pleasures.
Processed food may also become a steadily declining but still lucrative business offering guilty pleasures to those who cannot resist.
When he sang, "Can you feel my love?" and "I want to take you there!," he was offering amorous pleasures, but his conviction, and his timing, came straight from the church.
