food pill theme
Pills that when taken in place of meals render the consumption of ordinary food unnecessary.
6 total · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993) | minor | Mary was taking the RZB pill for sustenance. |
| movie: Conquest of Space (1955) | minor | The crew of five sent to Mars were trained to sustain themselves on a variety of food pills. |
| movie: Cube Zero (2004) | minor | Wynn consumed for lunch a green pill that was evidently equivalent to goat cheese salad with ginseng, liver fricassee, and mango sorbet. Dodd, by contrast, consumed a red pill labled as containing steak. |
| movie: Star Pilot (1966) | minor | The aliens gave Luisa seven days meals worth of food pills. |
| shortstory: The Last Man (1929) | minor | Food laboratories produced food pills, among other synthetic foods (e.g. chemically manufactured soup), for consumption. |
| shortstory: The Revolt of the Pedestrians (1928) | minor | We learned how the motorists ate food sold in bricks, and how each brick contained all the basic nutrients essential for life. Interestingly, each brick was stamped with the number of calories it consisted of much like how our own food is today. |