
There's an old commercial that used to make me cry. A little boy loses his toy boat while playing in the sands of Cape Cod. Decades later, he discovers it on eBay, and his face washes over in emotion. "What if nothing was ever forgotten?" the voiceover asks. "What if nothing was ever lost?"
The things that tie us to our small, innocent selves are truly never forgotten — but they do get lost. After all, even if you could find the old, metal-lidded pudding packs of your youth on eBay, what would you do with them? Lost toys can be found. Lost flavors are harder to come by.