porridge is nice. i feel like it’s the middle ground of tasty, convenient and healthy. also there’s space for variety, you can put fruits in, jam or cacao powder, but usually i make it plain with (not) milk.
as for something more cyberpunk, i wish these liquid food drinks were more viable for me. they always taste like somehow greasy protein drinks to me and never actually fill me up. if they would, they would be my ideal corpo fuel
It’s Quinoa flakes, protein powder, and a milk substitute made from coconuts stirred up and zapped into a protein rich sludge similar to porridge for me in the morning. Then it’s a question of how I season and flavour it up. Sausage and maple syrup for an autumn vibe, banana and honey for a sweet kick, raspberries and blackberries for tart zing.
It’s almost always that because I have serious food allergies and most normal options are a bad idea for me.
It’s not too cyberpunk, but since it’s fair trade quinoa I hope it’s a step in a Solarpunk direction.
I don’t generally eat breakfast due to intermittent fasting, but when I do I usually go for cereals (I’m a big fan of Magic Spoon low-carb cereals) or protein bars. Protein bars strike me as very cyberpunk - mass-produced slabs of ambiguously sourced proteins a la Soylent Green. But they’re easy to stash and carry, so as long as the texture isn’t too bad, I’ll usually eat those.
If I’m getting fancy or doing a lot of activity (say, when I go to karate seminars), being in Texas I’ll usually have a couple of breakfast tacos usually stuffed with eggs, bacon, cheese, maybe potatoes, and maybe some brisket or sausage. They’re easy to hold in the hand and eat on the go if required, so it seems like it’s a pretty cyberpunk way to get breakfast in a compact package. “Breakfast” is usually synonymous with “eggs” for me if we’re talking hot fuel. Big fan of eggs for breakfast!
I would consider porridge as some kind of self made liquid food … Slime.
Maybe it needs a dash of protein powder to reach the protein levels of buyable Liquid foods, but it should be quite similar as a result
hmm, putting protein powder into porridge, then filling it into bottles. almost seems like a good idea. i have seen a special kind of oatmeal, with very fine flakes that dissolve even in cold water, maybe that would be useful.
Sounds kinda like that baby food that they put in squeezable packs so you can squeeze it out into a bowl or something or just suck the paste out through the nozzle.
I’ve used those packs when traveling. It’s hard to find an emergency meal substitute with my allergies, I can’t just grab a sandwich from a coffee shop at the motorway services. However, it’s fairly easy to find limited ingredient, clearly labelled, nutritious options in the squeezable toddler foods.
Yeah, they’re pretty handy for long road trips and such also (as I recently discovered). You can eat ‘em without all the mess going everywhere. What we need is the Willy Wonka bubblegum that tastes like a full 7-course meal (but without the fruit-transformation side effects).
I think of the slabs of protein from “Snowpiercer”, the “bowl of snot” protein substance (like runny Cream of Wheat) from The Matrix, and the SCOP from Cyberpunk, and I’m kind of surprised that we haven’t seen something like it marketed already. I’d imagine that it probably wouldn’t become a common food source until it was necessary due to either unavailability of food or high costs/poverty. I’d imagine that the taste and texture would be fairly off-putting unless that’s all one could afford.
I got informed by a company that they now make weird “energy bars” with taste like coffee, chocolate, mashed potatoes and pizza. Their ingredients are very cheap, but that concept might fit here too.
Don’t click I am not into this company for their military vibes and cheap ingredients
The bowl of protein/snot is basically what quinoa flakes become. Adding extra protein powder to it boosts it to more useful levels but doesn’t improve the taste at all. I try and mask it with honey, nutmeg, and fresh fruit but it is still just mushy protein goo.
I meet all @SynAck 's criteria for it though; my choice is restricted by allergies, and it’s horribly expensive compared to a normal cereal so unless you have to you really don’t want to.