Isn't that the best blog title you've ever seen?!? I'm so proud.
Even better, space tuna is real. You can buy it at Trader Joes. You can stick the entire package in a pot of water, boil it, open the package and dump the contents over rice, pasta, veggies, bread, ice cream, whatever you typically eat with your tuna, and chow down.
The space tuna made me think today, when I had a free moment and a brain cell to spare for non school-y thoughts, about the future of food.
The topic, as a whole, is increasingly grim and uncertain. As a species we are generally becoming aware of how cavalierly we use natural resources and how quickly we're going through the ones that are not self-replenishing. I saw a chart recently (no link, sorry) that suggested that, while there are three times as many people alive today as there were in 1960, there are half as many resources available to the whole. Half as much potable water, half as much rich soil, half as much gasoline, half as much of what we can't do very well without.
It won't be long before space tuna will be the only tuna. Fortunately for you and all your fellow tuna lovers, it's delicious. So munch away on a glorious heaping plate of the inevitable space tuna, then wash it down with some reprocessed human space beer. Just don't think too hard about what you might actually be eating... in The Future.
I'd like to think future space food will include a lot of candy. I like candy and don't eat nearly enough of it. No, really. I like candy. I'm also rooting for peanut butter.
We will have to concentrate on foods that can be "grown" in a petri dish on a space station. According to science fiction movies, that includes just about anything your little heart might desire. Space people of the future will spend an inordinate amount of time eating the equivalent of nutri-loaf*, however. They clearly won't be smarter than regular humans, who have spent centuries nurturing the beet and featuring the thing in dishes ranging from soup to jello molds. Come on, people! It's not meant to be eaten! Are you crazy? Are you even list- oh, never mind...
It's up to us make the future of space food a brighter one than it might otherwise be if we allow the crazy people to take the reins. Say no to beets. Say yes to candy. And please, pass the tuna.**
*Nutri-loaf is a meal given to medium and maximum security prisoners who are not behaving themselves and have their meal privileges taken away. Nutri-loaf consists of whatever is on the menu for the day, blended up, mashed into a loaf shape and baked. According to my mom, this is for real.
**I'm really tired.
Even better, space tuna is real. You can buy it at Trader Joes. You can stick the entire package in a pot of water, boil it, open the package and dump the contents over rice, pasta, veggies, bread, ice cream, whatever you typically eat with your tuna, and chow down.
The space tuna made me think today, when I had a free moment and a brain cell to spare for non school-y thoughts, about the future of food.
The topic, as a whole, is increasingly grim and uncertain. As a species we are generally becoming aware of how cavalierly we use natural resources and how quickly we're going through the ones that are not self-replenishing. I saw a chart recently (no link, sorry) that suggested that, while there are three times as many people alive today as there were in 1960, there are half as many resources available to the whole. Half as much potable water, half as much rich soil, half as much gasoline, half as much of what we can't do very well without.
It won't be long before space tuna will be the only tuna. Fortunately for you and all your fellow tuna lovers, it's delicious. So munch away on a glorious heaping plate of the inevitable space tuna, then wash it down with some reprocessed human space beer. Just don't think too hard about what you might actually be eating... in The Future.
I'd like to think future space food will include a lot of candy. I like candy and don't eat nearly enough of it. No, really. I like candy. I'm also rooting for peanut butter.
We will have to concentrate on foods that can be "grown" in a petri dish on a space station. According to science fiction movies, that includes just about anything your little heart might desire. Space people of the future will spend an inordinate amount of time eating the equivalent of nutri-loaf*, however. They clearly won't be smarter than regular humans, who have spent centuries nurturing the beet and featuring the thing in dishes ranging from soup to jello molds. Come on, people! It's not meant to be eaten! Are you crazy? Are you even list- oh, never mind...
It's up to us make the future of space food a brighter one than it might otherwise be if we allow the crazy people to take the reins. Say no to beets. Say yes to candy. And please, pass the tuna.**
*Nutri-loaf is a meal given to medium and maximum security prisoners who are not behaving themselves and have their meal privileges taken away. Nutri-loaf consists of whatever is on the menu for the day, blended up, mashed into a loaf shape and baked. According to my mom, this is for real.
**I'm really tired.
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