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** A similar device shows up in ''[[Megas XLR]]'', which will create any food requested. Jamie tries to use it to create some women and money, but it doesn't work.
** In "By Any Other Name", enemy aliens who were new to human bodies asked why the crew just didn't use food pills like they did. The crew then goes out of their way to subvert them by showing them the pleasures of [[Through His Stomach|eating, drinking]], and other things. As to what they were eating and drinking? [[Palette-Swapped Alien Food|"It's... it's green!"]] (among other bright colors).
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'''McCoy:''' If he keeps [[Orgasmically Delicious|reacting like that]], he's going to need a diet. }}
* Meal bars in ''[[Babylon 5]]'' are nutritious enough, but very much inferior in taste to "insta-heats" (which are like microwave meals that heat themselves when opened).
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* Somewhat subverted in the ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' episode "Nowhere to Hyde," when Dr. Jekyll was working on a vitamin that a person would only take once in their lifetime.
* In a [[Garfield and Friends]] episode, Garfield [[Rip Van Winkle|falls asleep and wakes up in]] [[The Future]] where all food is in pill form, much to his chagrin. When [[All Just a Dream|he wakes up]] and sits down for his lunch, Jon serves him a pill on a plate causing him to run away in a panic.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
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** The relative quality of the MREs received a fair amount of public attention after Hurricane Katrina, when the military supplied many of them to people displaced by the storm and the subsequent flooding. That said, everybody agreed that even the worst MRE beats starving.
* Canned food originated for military purposes, as feeding an army is rather difficult. During the first years of the Napoleonic Wars, the notable French newspaper Le Monde, prompted by the government, offered a hefty cash award of 12,000 francs to any inventor who could devise a cheap and effective method of preserving large amounts of food. Glass jars were used at first but they break rather easily. So metal cans were developed.
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** Unfortunately, early cans were sealed with lead, which probably ended up killing the soldiers faster than actual combat.
** Also, the tin opener was invented some years after the tin, so soldiers resorted to opening tins with bayonets and the like.
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** Pellets are also offered as an alternative to mixes, as it ensures the animal gets all the nutrition it needs instead of picking out only the bits it likes.
* [http://davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm David Zondy's Tales of Future Past] has a [http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/futurefood.htm huge segment] on [[Future Food Is Artificial|Future Food]], and of course [http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/foodpills.htm Food Pills]. The best page is probably [http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/synthetic_food.htm the one describing an attempt to put it into practice];
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It was syrup. Looked like weak corn syrup. Tasted like weak corn syrup.
No wonder they had to be locked up for the duration of the experiment. One unguarded window and it was "Hello, cheeseburger!" }}
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