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== Tabletop Games ==
* Likewise in the [[Tabletop Games]]In ''[[Shadowrun]]'', where the lower classes were limited to artificially flavored soy and fungus products.
** And Nerps, of course!
* Infamous dystopian-black-comedy RPG ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' offers multiple brands of synthetic foods to the player characters—Algae Chips, soy chewing gum, Bouncy Bubble Beverage and the (extra super) infamous [[Super Fun Happy Thing of Doom|Hot Fun]] among them. There is no real quality-control process, however, or at least none that hasn't been compromised by cost-cutting technicians; the number of flavor varieties available to the player, meanwhile, depends on his security clearance. The writers have even started using the names Soylent Red, Orange, Yellow and Green in homage.
** And of course, Friend Computer is happy to report that no one has ''ever'' [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|accidentally fallen into Food Vat #4589B]] and gotten processed with the yeast strains, nor do recycled cadavers ''ever'' supply the protein content for Vita-Yum Meal Substitute Bars.
** In the more recent editions, it's not just the High Programmers who get to escape this; one of the perks of Red clearance is that you get to eat a ''real apple'' once a month or so, with the promise of more if you continue to be promoted.
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* Similar to the above is the Gift: Cooking in ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'', which allows its possessor to turn any old trash into mush that is perfectly sustaining but looks and tastes like "warm, wet cardboard." Granted, the Gift belongs to the Bone Gnawers, a tribe composed mostly of homeless and vagrants.
** ''Werewolf's'' Asian supplement, ''Hengeyokai'', includes a variant of that Gift that creates—what else—rice.
* ''[[Car Wars]]'' uses processed, flavored algae as its major source of food.
* The ''[[Transhuman Space]]'' setting, with its "fauxflesh" vats, can be either this or [[Veganopia]] depending on how the GM wants to play it, and on what part of the world you're in. Real meat is illegal in the EU, but just expensive (and possibly frowned upon) elsewhere.
* ''Cyberpunk2020'' features the ''Kibble'' that's described to have the same aspect, smell, and flavor of the dog food from which it takes its name.
 
 
== Video Games ==