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Probably the closest we've come to future food is
in the astronaut's lunch box, so it's not surprising that predictions
about future food often had a distinctly outer space tinge to them,
what with portrayals of spacemen popping food pills, sucking on
toothpaste tubes, and generally having a culinary bad time.
Naturally, when Kubrick took his famous take on space travel in
2001: a Space Odyssey he touched on the matter of space food.
In fact, he even gave us a choice of dining.
On the one hand, we have the meals served aboard the spaceship USS
Discovery, which consisted of pureed dishes that would adhere to their
trays and could be scooped up with a spoon with minimum danger of
crumbs or rogue chops floating off to gum up Hal's circuits.
On the other, we have the in-flight meals from the
Moon shuttle Aires, which are of a more liquid consistency so that
they can be sucked through a straw in zero g.
But no matter how you look at it, it's still a
steady diet of soup and pudding.
