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The future of consumer food should be colorless, bland packaging that unambiguously describes the product. Cattle, not pets. We don't need to name our food in

The future of consumer food should be colorless, bland packaging that unambiguously describes the product. Cattle, not pets. We don't need to name our food in 2023.

johnaspden 4y ago
Emulsified High Fat Offal Tubes 237g 40% sawdust 20% water 20% mechanically recovered abbatoir floor meat 19% rapeseed oil 1% unpronounceable chemicals
- hermannj314 4y ago
  Setup refrigerator monitoring, drop that into a YAML file, and let the cluster decide when it needs to provision more. It's the only way to eat food at scale.
- EntrePrescott 4y ago
  … among the latter of course: the green colorant that gives "Soylent Green" its characteristic color. Oh and while the abattoir floor meat is from cattle, the offal tubes are made from the meat of another mammal that we better not name here so as to not worry the customers
mortehu 4y ago
Store brands today do have deliberately bland packaging, in part so that you will be put off by it and buy a more expensive brand if you can afford it. Given this behavior I don't think bland packaging will ever dominate.
- db48x 4y ago
  It's worse than that: bright colorful packaging is a Nash Equilibrium.
sidpatil 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/993/ https://xkcd.com/993/
- shwoopdiwoop 4y ago
  The “No Name” brand does exactly that.
- olddustytrail 4y ago
  The "white brand" stuff. Sure to be popular among certain groups but perhaps not for the best.
olddustytrail 4y ago
You prefer to eat pets rather than cattle? Or is it just the naming you object to?
- EntrePrescott 4y ago
  (not so) fun fact: in Switzerland, it is legal to eat dog meat and to raise and slaughter dogs for that specific purpose [1]… though not commercially… unlike, say, in China, where there are even dog meat festivals [2]: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat#Current_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat#Current_laws [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Meat_Festival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Meat_Festival

The future of consumer food should be colorless, bland packaging that unambiguously describes the product. Cattle, not pets. We don't need to name our food in 2023.

johnaspden 4y ago

Emulsified High Fat Offal Tubes 237g 40% sawdust 20% water 20% mechanically recovered abbatoir floor meat 19% rapeseed oil 1% unpronounceable chemicals

hermannj314 4y ago
Setup refrigerator monitoring, drop that into a YAML file, and let the cluster decide when it needs to provision more. It's the only way to eat food at scale.
EntrePrescott 4y ago
… among the latter of course: the green colorant that gives "Soylent Green" its characteristic color. Oh and while the abattoir floor meat is from cattle, the offal tubes are made from the meat of another mammal that we better not name here so as to not worry the customers

mortehu 4y ago

Store brands today do have deliberately bland packaging, in part so that you will be put off by it and buy a more expensive brand if you can afford it. Given this behavior I don't think bland packaging will ever dominate.

db48x 4y ago
It's worse than that: bright colorful packaging is a Nash Equilibrium.

sidpatil 4y ago

https://xkcd.com/993/ https://xkcd.com/993/

shwoopdiwoop 4y ago
The “No Name” brand does exactly that.
olddustytrail 4y ago
The "white brand" stuff. Sure to be popular among certain groups but perhaps not for the best.

olddustytrail 4y ago

You prefer to eat pets rather than cattle? Or is it just the naming you object to?

EntrePrescott 4y ago
(not so) fun fact: in Switzerland, it is legal to eat dog meat and to raise and slaughter dogs for that specific purpose [1]… though not commercially… unlike, say, in China, where there are even dog meat festivals [2]: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat#Current_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat#Current_laws [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Meat_Festival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Meat_Festival