I'm a college student, and as a college student, you're pretty poor. If you're pretty poor, you might rely on these for sustenance. How might we make these a little bit more dystopian? I suppose we could remove some of the color, color is for the middle class, we could make it a little more of a soulless MRE look.We could even add the self cooking feature that most MRE's have, just to add a twitch of futurism. What if the ingredients were made with GMOs, or growth hormones. It could be grown in an underground hydroponic farm because the surface world is too polluted or overtaken with cities to grow healthily. Or, even more disturbing, it's a soylent green-like substance molded to look like food and all the tastes are chemical approximations, like expecting grape juice and getting grape kool-aid. Honestly, I think the best representation of what I'm thinking is Soy Food from Deus Ex, an MRE-like self heating pouch of soy paste, the best food you can get in the game.
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Well, hate to break it to you, but it was the food of a dystopian past as well… ie: the cyberpunk 80s… :). Still tasted pretty good.
At least it’s not the old fashioned square brick of Top Ramen that I ate way too much of in my last year of single life.
Just the smell of that stuff, not even opened or cooking, disgusts me now.
Whatever happened to Soilent Green? That was pretty dystopian