From:	Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: soyfoods (was Re: TOME:TNG)
Date:	Fri, 15 Oct 1993 13:36:19 +0930

>PS : Whoever was mentioning the vegetarian thing, isn't most of the food in
>Shadowrun a 'soy' product? 'Soy', short for soybean, is grown from the
>ground. It's veggan OK. So a 'soyburger' is vegetarian. Therefore,
>almost _all_ of Seattle is unwilling vegetarians...
>
Yeah, a lot of synth food is made from soya beans + flavouring. Reason: soy
beans are high in nutritional content, and once pressed, fairly tasteless and
easily shaped.
However, I don't think ALL the synth products are soya based, so it's probably
become slang for any type of synthetic food, most of which are probably
chemically derived.

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