From:	Autumn / Shatterglass <laughingcrow@****.COM>
Subject:	Re: Food
Date:	Mon, 16 Dec 1996 07:40:02 PST

It would be my guess that the pre-packaged foods would continue to be
popular... I think someone dubbed 'em Nuke-n-Eat... But like a lot of
low-end productions they'll have soy. I'd say... lot's of it.

As for "real" food, my guess is that location would have a lot to do with
availability and cost. Milk and eggs that actually came from cows and
chickens would be more accessable if you lived in a rural area. If
you're in a Sprawl, they would have to be imported, and that would make
them expensive. I'd say, well out of reach of a lot of folks.

[looks at her cookies] If I were to make these sixty years from now, my
guess is that the flour would be real... But unless I still lived out
here in the boonies, the eggs and milk would be engineered substitutes.
The chocolate would certainly be faked (hard to export the cocoa from
Amazonia etc....), and the vanilla as well. ('Already is in a lot of
things... I'm just a culinary anachronist for using the real stuff...)

It's an interesting question... Our idea of food has certainly changed in
the LAST 60 years... No doubt it'll change some more in the next 60. Some
people, though... The lucky or the wealthy... will always be purists,
though. Like me and my vanilla, they'll know what to do when somebody
actually hands over a real steak and an ear of corn....

--Autumn