12 Days of JOURNOS, Day Nine: Bugs, Blood & Other Future Menu Items

On the Ninth Day of JOURNOS, we remind ourselves that the year 2022 was first popularized in 1973 by the film Soylent Green. That vision of the future of cuisine gets Brandon & Stephen talking about other plans for how and what to feed people that isn't made of people.

Turns out one option is ... soylent, the food-replacement drink with the recommended daily allowance of misplaced irony.

But for reals, the near-future of food is wild: vertical farming, urban shrimp, upcycled coffee, plus algae, kelp, more kelp, heme, and, of course, insects ... so many insects. If the taste freaks you out, there's music that can make it sweeter.

The future wouldn't be complete without robots, of course: robots at the airport and robots loose on the streets, all designed to replace humans delivering our food. 

Wrapping up this smorgasbord of weird ideas, Stephen throws his own futurist dining concept into the ... trough.

Good eatin'!