The first taste is not the first thing. First comes the refrigerator light. Then the cold aluminum. Then the thumb under the tab and the sharp domestic thunder of a can opening in a quiet room.
Issue 02 of What I Keep Noticing treats LaCroix as a small coordination machine: pressure becomes sound, aroma becomes imagined fruit, color becomes identity, and a shared refrigerator becomes a stage for low-stakes hospitality. The thesis is simple: LaCroix works because it turns almost nothing into an occasion.
The issue keeps four categories visibly separate: current company and label claims, published sensory research, PointCast’s editorial interpretation, and useful limits around dental erosion and real-world aluminum recovery.
Three original editorial plates, a synthesized crack-of-the-can interaction, an invisible-flavor instrument, a printable refrigerator-door protocol, eight sources, and a machine-readable JSON companion make the ritual available for inspection.