We're now three different series in three different universes by this author

[conuly]

And in every single one we have enough information to conclude that people in the future don't cook.

I'm starting to wonder if the author herself just hates cooking. I suppose there are worse personal issues to drag into your writing.

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Comments

[moon_custafer]

I’ve seen at least one early-20th-c take on the idea (Stephen Leacock’s ‘The New Food’) though it parodied the concept.

My guess is that commercial canning, powdered gelatin, Bovril, etc, were all recent-enough things that many people assumed the trend would just continue to its logical end point.

Which makes this seem retro. I still think Glennlivet is just trolling us: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/05/world/glenlivet-scotch-whisky-capsule-glassless-trnd/index.html