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Reminds me of this quote from Good Omens, where Famine now spends his time coming up with new foods (“indistinguishable from any other [food] except for […] the
by AndrewDucker 11y ago
Reminds me of this quote from Good Omens, where Famine now spends his time coming up with new foods (“indistinguishable from any other [food] except for […] the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman. It didn’t matter how much you ate, you lost weight. […] And hair. And skin tone. And, if you ate enough of it long enough, vital signs”).
- iMark 11y agoAnd yet, even with those caveats, I'm sure such a product would find a market in modern times. cf Soylent.
- masklinn 11y agoIsn't the goal of soylent the inverse, closer to the "meal in a pill" of mid-century science fiction?
- AndrewDucker 11y agoAs someone with blood sugar issues, if the labs could whip up amazing cakes that didn't threaten my health then I'd be ecstatic.