As with the Truth in Television examples, real food is preferred whenever possible. In Naruto, Ninja carry Food Pills, referred to by those exact words in the dub, as field survival rations.Needless to say, he does not like the ration a bit, as he confessed to a colleague. In DT Eightron, in the first episode we see Shu eat in the cafeteria a hard ration, made of squares of undetermined kind of food.When we see workers eating them in the first episode, they eat entire platefuls, so the 1 pill = 1 meal element of the trope is averted, making it more plausible.These apparently suck so bad, the men on the Nirvana find out that even the women's bad cooking is better. The food pellets from Tarraku in Vandread.Compare Future Food Is Artificial and Plain Palate. And literal pills have the problem of not being very filling, leading to constant hunger which causes hormonal imbalance and can be psychologically torturous.Ĭontrast Instant Mass: Just Add Water!, where pills or powders have water added to them to make glorious feasts. Replacing solid food entirely with liquids (consumed or intravenous) can result in hair loss and sudden shift in body weight, as well as not properly absorbing many types of nutrients. There's also the physical consequences of not eating actual food. "Fried chicken paste" just doesn't sound very appetizing. Even if synthetic food could taste exactly like the real thing, there's still texture to consider. Even if food pills could replace the need to get nourishment the old-fashioned way, they can't replace a romantic dinner for two or a holiday feast for the extended family. For as long as humans have existed, we have gained pleasure from cultivating, preparing, and consuming food, and one of the key aspects of a culture is what they eat and how. What a lot of writers don't realize though is that human beings simply enjoy real food way too much to ever replace it with a synthetic alternative, no matter how economical it might be. If it's concentrated-such as the "protein pastes" that may be Food Pills' more realistic spiritual descendants - it tends to not taste very good, ranging from bland at best to terrible at worst. Today's science fiction food tends to have more body.
Protein, fat, sugars, and carbohydrates require mass and can't be compressed into a tiny capsule. The change is no doubt due to the growth of the health-and-exercise industry and the subsequent general awareness that the human body needs considerably more than just a few milligrams of vitamins per day. While once de rigueur for the Kitchen Of The Future during the first few decades of science fiction, they're a Forgotten Trope today-though a character ranting about how the future has not delivered the wonders we expected from it will probably mention the lack of these as an example. Whether it's the tastiest, most satisfying meal that you've ever had, or just the futuristic equivalent of combat rations, it will come in the form of pills, and not just any pills - Food Pills!įood Pills typically come in your choice of several perfectly convincing flavors, have no sell-by date, and provide all the nutrition you need. It might be more exotic, but for some reason, it's mostly just more convenient. Food is different in the future and on alien planets.
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