![]() ![]() Syntho-steak from Farmer in the Sky (1950) by Robert Heinlein, Synthetic food from Unto us a Child is Born (1933) by David H. Would you eat one? The characters in the story aren't too sure - "it would be like eating a large wart."Ĭompare to artificial food from The World Set Free (1914) by H.G. No eyes or beak or anything, they don't need those." "There's a mouth opening at the top, they dump nutrients in there. "That's the head in the middle," said the woman. They've got ones that specialize in drumsticks too, twelve to a growth unit. Out of it came twenty thick fleshy tubes, and at the end of each tube another bulb was growing. What they were looking at was a large bulblike object that seemed to be covered with stippled whitish-yellow skin. ![]()
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