hi,
our office just had a fire drill, my apologies for posting a tad late. i hate it when they do it so early in the AM b/c i'm hardly awake and the blaring bells just really piss me off.
but it got me thinking about what to post today. and i thought, what would be a good topic? and i thought, hmm...let's do futuristic foods.
so, in the year 3020, what kinds of forms do you think foods will come in? in pill form just like on the jetson's? or maybe like those dippin dots? (meh, they freak me out, man) also what do you believe would be your favorite futuristic lunch? make it up and be creative.
and don't forget to tell us WFL this fine balmy wednesday.
PS - GOOD LUCK HT ON YOUR SECOND INTERVIEW TODAY!
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Thanks guys!
In the future, I want to be far skinnier than I am now. So, I will not eat food at all, no matter what form it comes in.
(I'm thinking powder, that you stir into water, and drink)
Since it is not the future, and all I ate yesterday were the three olives in my martini, I finished my tomato soup, with a grilled cheese made from the pepper bread I baked over the weekend, and LadyA's left over cheese fondue. Now my kitchen smells funny.
i'd like future foods to be in pill form. or in the form of that willy wonka gum that allows you to taste a 4 course meal. but of course i wouldn't want to blow up like a giant blueberry. that would suck.
i had an egg mcmuffin today. i have terrible gas.
no clue what to eat today. probably some kind of soup. i am low on funds and need to wait until pay day to really get anything good.
Break a leg HT.
Much is made of future foods. One of my favorites was the Back to the Future II - pizza. I love the idea of a re-hydrator. Think about how easy shopping would be then. We'd have like packaging worthy of Apple.
So I want to pop my faccia\lean corn beef\tomatoes\sprouts out of a sleak little black cardboard pack and pop it into the re-hydrator and come back with a chewy\hot sandwich with hot cornbeef and muenster with cold crisp vegies.
And while I'm at it I want to work virtually from a pub.
oh, watching calories won't matter anymore because we'll all have pancreas monitors by then that will auto-cajole our digestive tracts into action to keep us skinny.
Considering how your last interview ended, please *don't* break a leg, HT. Instead, kick some think tank ass!
When you were a kid, did you ever have those toys (maybe as a stocking stuffer), that were basically capsules with foam dinosaurs or animals or whatnot inside? You'd put them in water and they would expand into full-size dinosaurs. That's what food will be like in the future. Little capsules that you place into a cup of water until they turn into your main dish and sides. By the year 2030, my work emergency food drawer will be replaced by a pill case!
Lunch today will probably be in soup form, owing to the weather.
I wonder if condoms will be made into different falvors? Anything to promote the practice would be nice.
Anyone ever use a dental dam?
blogger just raped my last comment.
here's a recap:
We will eat our own heavily spiced waste in the future.
Trio of salads or pastrami sandwich for lunch.
Smog/Bill Callahan = very good.
Love "I was a stranger", "dress sexy at my funeral" is on my myspace.
anyone know who the new happy poppy mixed race british singer is who has a video where she is happily singing and riding a bike through the countryside with other happy young girls?
HT.. dress slutty. that's how i got my job.
did anyone ever see that old aeon flux episode where she and trevor woke up thousands (millions) of years in the future and humankind had evolved to having no holes in their body? i don't remember the details but i think they were photosynthetic or something...
well i think we wont eat at all.. we'll have some charging station that places the necessary nutrients in our bloodstream directly and we have all kinds of nanomachines that regulate teh chemical soup that exists between our throat and anus.. fine dining will consist of just licking these strange spoon like devices that stimulate our tongues to taste what we "ordered".
and all restaurants will be taco bells.
and toilet paper will be outmoded.
i want lunch now.
did you know that it is Cheap Burger Day at McDonalds across the country? its like 39,49 or 59 cents for hamburgers and cheeseburgers..
(price and participation may vary.
Corinne Bailey, Jo.
I hate that song.
And now it's in my head.
Thanks.
Those dinosaurs in a capsule were always a disappointment. I wanted them to be two feet tall, but they were always just little sponge dinosaurs. Bullshit.
I have always dreamed that the future will bring one of those Star Trek machines in to my life. "Computer, ham and potato soup with white cheddar, dash of pepper." ZIP! There it is, just the way I like it. I suppose I'm a little dubious of the mind-reading computer, though.
In the near future, I am unsure of lunch. I'm thinking I will grab the special from the deli across the street. Or, maybe something a little more reasonable. I've been eating an awful lot of shit for the past month or so, and I started reaching for my fat pants this morning.
I never should have quit smoking.
Dress sexy at at your interview Hatertot
Dress sexy at at your interview Hatertot
For the first time in your life
Wear your blouse undone to here
And your skirt split up to here
Dress sexy at at your interview Hatertot
For the first time in your life
Dress sexy at at your interview Hatertot
Wink at the interviewer
Blow kisses to senior staff
Dress sexy at at your interview Hatertot
And when it comes your turn to speak before the interviewing panel
Tell them about the time you did it
On the beach with fireworks above you
On the railroad tracks with the gravel in your back
In the back room of a crowded bar
And in the office from where you were recently fired
Dress sexy at at your interview Hatertot
Dress sexy at at your interview Hatertot
For the first time in your life
Also tell them about how you give to charity
And tried to love your fellow man as best you could
But most of all don’t forget about the time on the beach
With fireworks above you
Oh, oh, oooooh ...
I think far-future lunches will be so awesome, that we will cry with joy when they arrive.
I think that they (they being those futuristas) will develop ways to make healthy ingredients look, taste and smell any way you want. So when you're shoveling the thick cut bacon, biscuits swimming in turkey gravy, lobster drowned in butter, etc. into your mouth, your body is receiving the ideal nutrional content. Loaded with vitamins, low in calories, high in protein, fiber, etc.
This of course may involve some serious chemicals an nanotechnology, but by then they'll have bugs worked out. Also, it may actually be bugs that we're eating
Oh, and all this talk about pens and powders that turn water in to real food makes me envision a Mad Max-type scenario where water is the most precious substance in the world.
"Who run BarterTown?!"
Ooops. Not Mad Max. They were all high on gasoline (not to be mistaken for the pigshit stop-gap measure introduced and munificently overseen by MasterBlaster in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome).
I was thinking of Ice Pirates.
Goddam space herpes...
I don't think Barbarella ever ate food...she really seemed to survive on sex...I choose that.
earthquake you could have also referenced Dune, and the special suits worn by the Fremen in the deserts of Arrakis that transforms their body waste into precious water.
Then of course there's the worm bile that is known as the "water of life"...
Actually Jo, not to be critical, but it was actually the placenta juice (also known as amniotic fluid) of a baby worm that was the "water of life".
I need to barf now.
I;m with Earthquake on this one,
I like the idea of a replicator from the Star Trek Universe.
An electronic synthesis of the proper nutrients formed in to what ever I want.
I'd be all like,
Computer.
beep, chirp, beep
More pot brownies please.
Zap!
MMM.
I don't Frank Herbert was a gormand ... I just wanted to throw that opinion out there.
I don't think either.
oooops I'm wrong: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Water+of+Life+(Dune)
No holes in future people? What do you do for sex? Just kind of rub on each other? Like slugs or something?
I have to say, I don't like the idea of no food/food pills etc. I am opposed to it entirely. What's the fun of popping a pill? Er, I mean, instead of eating? Future food will have all the nutrients, flavour, etc., but none of the trans fats & only enough fat & calories to meet your needs. I like the Star Trek thingy, too. I could have fresh sushi every day! Barring that device ever being invented, by 2030, I hope to be so rich that I have a personal chef following me around to cater (literally!) to my every craving. Aaaah. I will have a band playing my theme music, too. It'll suck for people who work with me, but hey. Bite me. People without theme music are jealous.
Good luck today HT! And don't take your theme band with you. I hear that's bad form at an interview.
Lunch today might be sushi, as I've been bit by the sushi bug. Although something warm would be good, too. I guess I need to make a decision here soon. Hm.
Yeah, I thought the water of life was water in which a young worm was drowned.
Young Paul uses the water of life to fulfill his destiny and become the Kwisatz Haderach!!!
I have to say, I'm a little disappointed in the number of people on this blog opting for a food-less future. This is a lunch blog, people! Not the food-pill blog!
However, in sex v. food, yeah, sex wins.
lt, the only advantage of food pills would be to decrease the amount of time devoted to making sure we have enough energy to have holeless sex constantly.
Hmm, holeless sex...reminds me of 12th grade.
At an all boys military catholic school?
Ewww
went to panera for lunch and had an eight dollar Italian Combo sandwich to celebrate NJ Political Commercials.. i'm not sure what made it so "italian". it had swiss cheese and some weird mayo stuff and smoked turkey and salami (maybe the salami) and lettuce on an artisan roll... it was passable but i feel like i should get more than a sandwich for that amount of money.. i blame the italians...
In the future I think food delivery will be very convienient. I picture a way to get food while skating, or rapping or punching the punching bag.
I see some sort of camel back and some sort of baloney based paste propelled by mountain dew under pressure.
Vlad, Get off your ass and get the blender, we're going to make the future happen today.
turkey wrap with provolone, avocado, lt and honey mustard.
cheddar beer kettle chips.
vitamin water fruit punch.
High Noon for lunch because their saying is
"Love Lunch"
and I do.
Classic Itialian Hogie and chicken veggie soup.
I normally don't go for the itialian because I am not big on the salami and other similar greasy meats, but the bread it was on looked good enough to over come anything. I haven't tried it yet
The soup is divine.
Gourmet buffet today was A-OK!
one california type roll
one steamed dumpling
mango/pecan crusted talapia (though the sign said Cushed)
broccoli
little nugget of turkey
avocado/tomato salad
2 onion rings
jalapeno chicken.
so much variety! I love variety
Mmmm . . . italians . . . .
Lunch was indian - chicken tikka masala & lamb vindaloo, which wasn't nearly spicy enough to warrant a name like 'vindaloo'. It was tasty, but not especially hot. That chicken tikka masala was gooooooood though. The best part was the Bollywood video playing on the tv while I waited for my other coworkers. It struck me as a lot like a New Kids on the Block video. Except with indians, instead of southies. I wish they'd had the sound turned up. Sigh.
Ha ha - holeless military catholic sex. That is a good point about the food-pills, EQ. In fact, it is the only good point.
m, in regards to your last comment. If you signed up for an italian "combo" for $8, and only got a sandwich, i'd say you indeed were shorted. A combo usually involves some sort of "combination" with other things, like chips and a drink.
Maybe in italy, a combo is anything that is comprised of more than one item, so your sandwich included bread AND meat, hence, a combo
Of course, none of the holes, all of the guilt.
Scrounged up the first Jerky Boys album last night. If you haven't in a while, you should.
italian sub from daily market (sensa fundo is the BOMB, yo!) and cup of tomato florentine soup. both were so damn tasty. except now, after having the soup, i have the strange aftertaste of spaghetti-o's in my mouth. odd.
for those of you keeping score at home. the italians take the prize for this lunch discussion.
i googled panera to see if i was slighted as per WD's comment. apparently i was cheated out of my kettle chips although this has nothing to do with the term combo. combo refers to the type of bypass surgery you will need after consuming a sandwich. Apparently, this littel fucker has 133% your daily sodium and 100% your saturated fat. now i'm not a health nut (unless cigarettes and bourbon are covertly extending my life) but that seems a bit obscene for one sandwich to fulfill so many dietary requirements--all with the illusion of being the "healthy fast food alternative". holeless-militant-catholic-fuck them...
for future reference
http://www.panerabread.com/menu/nutrition/profile.php?id=97
Italian Combo
Roast beef, smoked turkey, ham, salami, Swiss cheese, peperoncini, lettuce, tomatoes, red onions & our special sauce, on Ciabatta
Yeah, there's about ten things on that sammie that make it something I shouldn't order on a regular basis. Siiiiigh . . . but I just can't get behind a dry turkey-no-cheese-no-mayo sammie.
Yay! Italian! I'm having some for dinner! Yay! Leftover pizza!
So, I opted for a corned beef and swiss on sourdough. Side of (free from the office) cheese & pretzel Combos. Washed down with apple juice and cranberry juice, in separate bottles.
Let's spend a minute talking to the almighty condiment judges out there: "Look, fuckers, if I tell you I don't want mustard on my sandwich, don't ask me three times to confirm it because you're so incredulous. I'm paying you to make my sandwich, not asking you to eat it. So, put your little fucking gloves back on and make with the sandwich already."
[end of rant]
It IS tasty, though. And warm.
I just ate the rest of my trio salad thingy from yesterday (hummus, tabouli and white bean). Now I'm going to go sit outside with my coat and scarf, smoke a cigarette or two, entertain my brain with today's crossword puzzle and figure out what else I want to eat...I'm thinking an egg roll.
You look like a baby. Get in my belly!
Welcome M as the newest contributor! woop woop!
Congrats M!
I think, to make it official, you need to come to the seminar next weekend. And make miso come, too.
I'm hungry again. I think b/c I didn't like how my interview went, even though they want to meet with someone else (so third interview?). I was off and fuzzy, when normally I'm really good at interviewing. Damn cold meds taking away my punch.
Anyhoo. I don't know what I'll eat. All this talk of italian subs almost makes me want to get one, but I'm po' and unemployed, and have perfectly fine food here.
Maybe I just need a nap.
Yay! for M!
ht, my perennial job interview-tormenter is an org called KaBOOM!. Over the course of the past 5 years or so, I have applied to them at least a dozen times, interviewed on the phone half a dozen, gone in to see them twice, and gotten hired zero times. Somewhere in the middle of all of that, I realized that I really didn't want to work for them, but I had gotten so accustomed to applying that now I just send them a resume folded in to a Christmas card every year.
Fuckers.
Welcome M! There's a seminar next weekend? I guess I'm not keeping up with my OWFL special events . . .
Peep. That song is also done by Metallica on their old timey
Garage days re-revisited.
And in all this, i can't believe that nobody said nothing about no soylent nothing.
I mean it's only a fantastic solution to both over population and cheap protein.
It's a good thing I like Indian and Chinese food... since there is already a global surplus of those folks. I can't imagine what their billion + populations will look like in 3020
Probably tastey
Soylent Pollack.
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